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Science & Spirituality merge to help answer the question: Are we alone?

Warning! - Key Terms

[1] Wikipedia - Confirmation Bias

[2] Wikipedia - Convergent Validity

[3] Wikipedia - Occam's Razor

[4] Wikipedia - Pseudoscience

[5] Wikipedia - Gaslighting

[6] Wikipedia - Illusion

[7] Wikipedia - Pareidolia

[8] Wikipedia - Predictive Coding

[9] Wikipedia - Paradigm Shift

Cosmic Perspective

[10] Hayden Planetarium (4/2/2007) Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Cosmic Perspective

Scientific & Spiritual Perspectives

[11] BBC - Vatican Observatory Where Priests Are Also Astrophysicists

[12] HuffPost - Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare

[13] NASA (2016) - NSF's LIGO has Detected Gravitational Waves

[14] Universe Today - The Human brain in space: euphoria and the "Overview Effect" experienced by astronauts

Quantum Physics Perspective

[15] Washington Post - Quantum Entanglement - Science's 'spookiest' phenomenon achieved in space

[16] noosphere.princeton.edu - The Global Consciousness Project

[17] princeton.edu - Princeton Experimental Anomalies Research - PEAR Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena

[18] The Atlantic - Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

[19] BBC - The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics

[20] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

[21] Wikipedia - Quantum Mind

[22] YouTube - Quantum Physics and Consciousness - Michio Kaku - "Cosmic Consciousness"

[23] nih.gov - Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century

Psychosocial Perspective

[24] smithsonianmag.com - Humans have searched for extraterrestrial life for more than a century. What will we do when we find it life out there in the universe?

[25] Newsweek (2015) - Most People Believe Intelligent Aliens Exist

[26] yougov.co.uk (2015) - Majorities across Britain, Germany and the USA believe that extra-terrestrial life exists

[27] sciencedirect.com - Consciousness and Cognition Volume 40 - Mindfulness meditation and consciousness: An integrative neuroscientific perspective

[28] harvard.edu - “Our brains need a coherence of firing to organize perception and analysis of data from the world around us"

[29] heartmath.org - Heart/Global Interconnectedness - Heart-brain coherence

Astrobiological Perspective

[30] NASA - Atrobiology - Are We Alone?

[31] NASA - Follow the water

[32] NASA - Finding Life Beyond Earth is Within Reach

[33] LA Times (2015) - NASA announces we'll find extraterrestrial life in the next 10-20 years

[34] New York Times - Yes There Have Been Aliens - Drake Equation - Updated with Kepler data - (Does not include moons)

[35] aeon.co - To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it

Ocean Worlds

[36] NASA - The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water - April 7, 2015

[37] JPL/NASA - Infographic - Includes 10 bodies in our solar system that contain vast quantities of liquid water at or below the surface

[38] ScienceAlert - These Ocean Worlds Reveal Just How Little Water We Have Here on Earth

[39] NASA - Does the sun have any water? (Yes)

[40] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

[41] NASA - Webb telescope will study our solar system's ocean worlds

Ceres

[42] JPL/NASA - Ceres by Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

[43] JPL/NASA - Water Ice Abundance - Vesta & Ceres

[44] JPL/NASA - Dawn - Infrared images - (brightest spots designated Area 5)

[45] JPL/NASA - 4/13/2015 - Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres

[46] JPL/NASA - 6/29/2015 - Occator Crater in the dark (?)

[47] mysteriousuniverse.org - After Odd (6/30/2015) Dawn Shutdown, NASA Has New Take on Ceres Lights

[48] JPL/NASA - 3D view - Occator Crater

[49] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater - Topographic map

[50] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots

[51] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots - Color

[52] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots in color and other images

[53] National Geographic - The Dwarf Planet Previosuly Known as an Ocean World

[54] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Ceres (color animation)

[55] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[56] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

[57] JPL/NASA - Center of Occator Crater (enhanced color)

[58] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

[59] mps.mpg.de - Cryovolcanism on Dwarf Planet Ceres

[60] popularmechanics.com - The Ice Volcanoes of Ceres Were Highly Active a Few Million Years Ago

[61] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

[62] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Enhanced color

[63] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Topographic map

[64] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Infrared - Full resolution

[65] Space.com - Interior layers rendering

[66] EOS.org - Geologically active

[67] JPL/NASA - Ahuna Mons - Side view

[68] phys.org - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic animation

[69] Nature - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic images

[70] phys.org - Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice - Ahuna Mons - Color

[71] sciencemag.org - Cryovolcanism on Ceres

[72] space.com - Ceres' Ice Volcano Ahuna Mons

[73] businessinsider.com - There’s only one volcano on dwarf planet Ceres — and scientists think that’s because the rest have vanished

[74] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater

[75] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater - Side view

[76] JPL/NASA - Ceres color map

[77] JPL/NASA - Ceres - color

[78] JPL/NASA - Ceres - Enhanced color view

[79] JPL/NASA - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[80] Space.com - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[81] JPL/NASA - Dawn Journal - Three-year retrospective

[82] JPL/NASA - Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region

[83] JPL/NASA - High Resolution Ceres View

Jupiter

[84] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter North Pole

[85] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

[86] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter South Pole

[87] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[88] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[89] JPL/NASA - South Pole Composite

[90] JPL/NASA - Infrared

[91] JPL/NASA - Io color and heat

[92] JPL/NASA - Io closeup

[93] NASA - Io blue plume

[94] JPL/NASA - Io Pele Plume

[95] JPL/NASA - Io hi res plume

[96] JPL/NASA - Io plumes

[97] JPL/NASA - Io Southern Hemisphere

[98] JPL/NASA - Io South Pole

[99] JPL/NASA - Europa - Color

[100] JPL/NASA - Hubble Sees Recurring Plume Erupting From Europa

[101] JPL/NASA - Europa - Closeup color

[102] JPL/NASA - Europa Clay Prints

[103] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[104] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[105] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[106] JPL/NASA - Callisto - Color

[107] JPL/NASA - Callisto Basin

[108] Juno Mission - 63 Moons of Jupiter - Animation

[109] YouTube - Astrum - Highlights from the Juno Mission - Includes polar images and aurora

[110] YouTube - Sean Duran - Jupiter Juno Perijove 08

[111] JPL/NASA - Soaring Over Jupiter

Saturn

[112] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Last full disk images of Saturn from Cassini - Color

[113] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Saturn - Color - Earth and moon (lower right)

[114] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole - Animation

[115] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole

[116] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - North Pole - Color

[117] JPL/NASA - Rings - Mostly water ice - color

[118] JPL/NASA - Pan

[119] JPL/NASA - Saturn's F-ring (not caused by Pan)

[120] JPL/NASA - Pandora

[121] JPL/NASA - Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan

[122] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Atlas - Color

[123] Flickr.com - 2d7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Daphnis - Color

[124] JPL/NASA - Epimetheus

[125] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Epimetheus closeup

[126] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[127] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color maps

[128] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color map

[129] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[130] JPL/NASA - Enceladus global color maps

[131] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Color

[132] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[133] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

[134] JPL/NASA - Enceladus electrical connection with Saturn

[135] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[136] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[137] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[138] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

[139] JPL/NASA - Enceladus orbital squeeze (featuring Saturn)

[140] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[141] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

[142] JPL/NASA - Cassini's last Eneceledus plume observation (animation)

[143] EOS - Where are the electrical currents in the Enceladus plume?

[144] JPL/NASA - Atmosphere on Enceladus

[145] Scientific American - Excitement builds for the possibility of life on Enceladus

[146] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[147] JPL/NASA - Tethys global color maps

[148] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[149] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[150] JPL/NASA - Dione global color maps

[151] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

[152] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Dione trailing Hemisphere - Color

[153] JPL/NASA - Dione - A Moon's Contrasts

[154] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[155] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[156] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

[157] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Global color maps

[158] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Icy Cratered Surface

[159] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Multiple Impact Craters

[160] BBC - Cassini's last Titan flyby - Color includes upper atmosphere

[161] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

[162] JPL/NASA - Titan - near-infrared wavelengths

[163] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[164] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[165] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

[166] JPL/NASA - Titan's South Polar Vortex - Color

[167] NASA - Cassini completes final and fateful Titan flyby

[168] YouTube - Astrum - Titan

[169] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

[170] JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Extreme Color

[171] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Color

[172] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[173] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

[174] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Pandora - Color

[175] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[176] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[177] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

[178] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Iapetus equatorial ridge closeup

[179] JPL/NASA - Farewell to Iapetus - Color

[180] JPL/NASA - Cassini: The Grand Finale - Moons - "Habitability Outside the Habitability Zone" - Color

[181] YouTube - Astrum - 10 Amazing Images from Cassini

[182] BBC (9/13/2017) - Cassini's epic journey to the ringed planet, told by the people who helped make it happen

[183] YouTube -TechInsider (2016) - NASA released a stunning time lapse of Saturn

[184] YouTube - Astrum - Saturn

[185] YouTube - NASA Goddard - Cassini infrared Saturn

[186] YouTube - ESA - Cassini Diving Into History

[187] YouTube - Astrum - Cassini retrospective and grand finale

[188] YouTube - NPR's Skunk Bear - Postcards from Saturn

[189] New York Times - 100 images from Cassini

[190] YouTube - Secureteam10 - Cassini time-lapse footage montage

[191] JPL/NASA - Impact location - Infrared

Uranus

[192] JPL/NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Uranus

[193] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

[194] JPL/NASA - Miranda

[195] JPL/NASA - Miranda closeup

[196] JPL/NASA - Miranda more closeup

[197] JPL/NASA - Umbriel

[198] JPL/NASA - Titania

[199] YouTube - Astrum - Uranus

[200] YouTube - CrashCourse - Uranus & Neptune: CrashCourse Astronomy #19

[201] medium.com - Mysterious Uranus and why we need to put an orbiter around it

Neptune

[202] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

[203] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune - True Color of Clouds

[204] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color

[205] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color map

[206] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color- Voyager 2 flyby video released for the 25th anniversary

[207] JPL/NASA - Triton closeup

[208] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[209] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

[210] YouTube - Astrum - Neptune

Pluto

[211] NASA - New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon; Sunrise/Sunset Observations

[212] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

[213] NASA - Pluto's orientation with the equator

[214] JPL/NASA - Pluto and Charon enhanced color

[215] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Charon

[216] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

[217] NASA - Pluto's size

[218] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[219] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[220] JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

[221] gizmodo.com - Pluto/Charon binary system with four moons

[222] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[223] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[224] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

[225] JPL/NASA - Pluto cryovolcano (Wright Mons)

[226] NASA - APOD - 'snakeskin' terrain - color

[227] Space.com - Pluto water

[228] NASA - Pluto haze layers

[229] flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA- Atmosphere - Color

[230] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[231] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[232] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

[233] flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA- Sputnik Planum - Color

[234] JPL/NASA - Pluto North Pole - Color

[235] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

[236] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI - Dark side and atmosphere closeup

[237] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

[238] Brown U. - Futurity.org - Possible ocean

[239] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[240] New York Times - Possible ocean

[241] space.com - Dwarf Planet Pluto: Facts About the Icy Former Planet

Panspermia Theory

[242] Panspermia Theory - Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed

Asteroids & Comets / Meteors & Meteorites

[243] JPL/NASA - WISE - A Discovering Machine

[244] YouTube - Astrum - Asteroids

[245] blogspot.com - Credit: Alex Parker - OSSOS team - Solar system diagram

[246] National Geographic - Stardust mission - comet tail dust may be extrasolar

[247] CBS News - Chelyabinsk meteor - 2/15/2013

[248] Time - (Chelyabinsk) Meteorite pulled from Russian lake is one of the world's biggest - October 2013

[249] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - Extraterrestrial Life Exists, Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe Claims

[250] NASA - 3000 Comets for SOHO - Time-lapse animation - Kreutz Comets (in red) are the fastest objects in the solar system, traveling 0.2 light speed before they disappear into the sun

[251] NASA - Sundiving comet and CME - Video

[252] space.com (2011) - Did Comet Cause Solar Explosion? Hardly, Experts Say

[253] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Kreutz Comet and CME

[254] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

[255] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth

[256] JPL/NASA - Asteroid Ida and satellite Dactyl - Color

[257] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

[258] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid - different angles

[259] earthsky.org - Lovejoy C/2011 - Perihelion December 2011 - Video

[260] assa.org - Images of Lovejoy C/2011 from Australia

[261] brucegary.net - Comet C/2012 S1 ISON - Bruce Gary (retired professional astronomer)

[262] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

[263] NBC News - Comet ISON - Pre-perihelion

[264] CNN - Comet ISON - Pre-perihelion videos

[265] earthsky.org - SDO coverage planned at perihelion

[266] NASA - ISON recap

[267] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - SDO signal loop prevented NASA scientists from seeing comet ISON at perihelion

[268] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

[269] pcmag.com - Comet ISON Wrap-up: It Fought the Sun and the Sun Won

[270] NASA (5/29/2016) - Anomalies around the stereo spacecraft

[271] YouTube - CrashCourse - Asteroids: Crash Course Astronomy #20

[272] Spacetelescope.org - Hubble ESA - Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar System - Binary comets in the asteroid belt

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

[273] ESA (7/7/2015) - Rosetta - Navcam Image

[274] wordpress.com - JPL/NASA - Orbital diagram

[275] space.com - 'Sound' of comet 67P

[276] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[277] NASA - Atmosphere

[278] ESA - Philae close up

[279] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[280] LA Times - Oxygen found

[281] The Guardian - Oxygen found

[282] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - Color

[283] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team - Same as APOD

[284] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[285] ESA - Inside Imhotep

[286] ESA - Bright region in Imhotep - Colour

[287] flickr.com - Imhotep - Colour

[288] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - ESA/Rosetta/NavCam - Colour

[289] ESA - Comet's fireworks display before perihelion

[290] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

Sun

[291] sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov - Realtime Images

[292] stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa - Stereo Science Center

[293] Space Weather News - 24hr. video loops

[294] spaceweather.com - Space Weather - Space Photos

[295] NASA - APOD - Coronal Crown During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[296] NASA - Coronal Crown

[297] NASA - ISS During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[298] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

[299] NASA - SDO - The Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths

[300] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

[301] YouTube - Aryanatomy - Sounds of the solar system (starts with the sun)

Electric Universe Theory

[302] Electric Universe Theory

[303] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[304] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

[305] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Magnetic Reconnection & Cosmic Plasma

[306] ESA - Hershel - Oort Cloud - Note toroidal shape

[307] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[308] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[309] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[310] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement

[311] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - The vacuum catastrophe

[312] whatsupwiththat.com - How plasma connects the sun to the climate

[313] NASA - Hidden Portals in Earth's Electromagnetic Field

[314] rationalwiki.org - Electric Universe Theory as Pseudo-science

[315] physics.stackexchange.com - How to Debunk the Electric Universe

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[316] space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[317] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

[318] NASA (January 22, 2008) MESSENGER - Mercury - Color

[319] seeker.com - Mercury's Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin

[320] CBS News - NASA captures first images of frozen water on Mercury

[321] spaceref.com - NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Young Crater With Bright Rays - Color

[322] NASA - Mercury water ice

[323] YouTube - Astrum - Mercury

Venus

[324] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

[325] YouTube - Astrum - Our Solar System's Planets: Venus

Earth & Moon

[326] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[327] ISRO - MOM - Earth - Colour

[328] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field - (repeat)

[329] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

[330] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - NASA/JPL - Apollo mission - Color

[331] NASA - Captured asteroid

[332] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[333] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

[334] Space.com - (8/20/2014) Sea plankton found on ISS, Russians claim

[335] livescience.com - Life in Antarctica Lake under Ice

[336] Washington Post - These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists say

[337] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

[338] nih.gov - The brine shrimp artemia: adapted to critical life conditions

[339] Wikipedia - Artemia - Brine shrimp

[340] YouTube - Space Videos - Moon time lapse - SELENE images

Mars

[341] NASA (1999) - Mars Rotate (true color) - Animation

[342] NASA (2011) - Mars Roll - Includes South and North Poles - Animation

[343] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[344] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

[345] ESA - Blue sediments build up in craters over time - Colour

[346] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

[347] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - Mars by ESA Rosetta - OSIRIS NAC - February 2007

[348] ISRO - Mars Orbiter Mission - First closeup color image

[349] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[350] ISRO - Mars - Atmosphere

[351] ISRO - Images from colour camera

[352] spaceref.com - ISRO - Images of Phobos and Martian atmosphere

[353] ESA - Phobos

[354] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[355] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[356] NASA - Deimos - Color

[357] JPL/NASA - Mount Sharp Comes in Sharply - note baby blue sky

[358] ESA - Past habitability

[359] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

[360] JPL/NASA - Morning Clouds Atop Martian Mountain

[361] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[362] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

[363] JPL/NASA - Odyssey - Investigating Mars: Siton Undae

[364] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[365] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[366] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

[367] UAHirise - Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

[368] UAHirise - Cracks in a Crater's Ice

[369] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[370] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[371] JPL/NASA - North polar cap - Color

[372] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[373] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

[374] researchgate.net - Crater near north polar cap with water ice

[375] NASA - South polar cap

[376] NASA - South polar texture

[377] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - South polar texture

[378] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[379] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[380] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - Color

[381] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[382] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

[383] phys.org - South Polar cap - Color

[384] marsanomalyresearch.com - NASA/JPL/MSSS - South polar anomaly

[385] JPL/NASA - Rectangles with wiggly sides near south polar cap

[386] JPL/NASA - Patterns Unique, Yet Familiar - Near south polar cap

[387] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - Color

[388] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

[389] UAHirise - Dry Ice (Spiders) Gone Wild

[390] UAHirise - Interesting Cones inside Crater - Spiders on Shadowed Side

[391] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[392] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

[393] NASA - Citizen scientists seek South Pole spiders on Mars

[394] JPL/NASA - Pit or impact crater next to very dark textured area

[395] JPL/NASA - Possible Layers on Floor of Suzhi Crater

[396] JPL/NASA - Color strips near Mawrth Vallis - "a future interplanetary park"

[397] UAHirise - A View of the Painted Desert Near Mawrth Vallis

[398] UAHirise - Candidate ExoMars Landing Site in Mawrth Vallis

[399] NASA - Subsurface water

[400] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks - Curiosity rover sol 707

[401] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[402] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

[403] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Mud cracks

[404] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[405] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain - Color

[406] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[407] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[408] ESA - Gusev Crater - Colour

[409] JPL//NASA - Evidence of past water

[410] NASA - Curiosity rover - Mars covered with organic material

[411] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[412] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[413] JPL/NASA - UAP over Mt. Sharp

[414] NASA (3/4/2004) - Opportunity - "Bunny ears"

[415] JPL/NASA - Opportunity rover - Microscopic image anomaly

[416] techtimes.com - Opportunity rover - "Weird rock" - "relatively high concentration of silicon and aluminum. Its overall composition has neither been observed by either the Opportunity or Spirit before"

[417] NASA - Opportunity rover - Marathon Valley - Map

[418] NASA - Opportunity rover - Weird rock - panoramic

[419] JPL/NASA - "Jelly doughnut" anomaly

[420] National Geographic - "Doughnut Rock" Added to Mars's Mystery Object Hall of Fame

[421] JPL/NASA - Surface anomaly (upper left)

[422] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[423] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[424] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Meteorite

[425] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[426] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation - Context image

[427] NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Color

[428] YouTube - Astrum - Mars

[429] earthsky.org - More evidence for water on Mars

[430] space.com - There Is Boron on Mars — Another Sign the Red Planet Could Have Hosted Life

[431] JPL/NASA - Textures in Deuteronilus Mensae - Color

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

[432] NASA - Kuiper Belt - Overview

[433] NASA - Oort Cloud - Overview

[434] YouTube - CrashCourse - Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22

Extrasolar Systems

[435] NASA - Kepler survey catalogue with hundreds of new planet candidates

[436] Washington Post - Four Alien Planets Orbiting Nearby Star - (scroll down for gif)

[437] Universe Today - Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star (2011)

[438] UCSC.edu - Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf

[439] NASA - Brown dwarf artist rendering - Animation

[440] JPL/NASA - Brown Dwarf Star Found by Spitzer Space Telescope

[441] abc.net.au - Small alien world most Jupiter-like planet ever seen

[442] JPL/NASA - WISE - Brown dwarfs

[443] JPL/NASA - WISE and Spitzer - Coldest brown dwarfs

[444] astronomynow.com - Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood

[445] NASA - Astrobiology - The Ever More Puzzling and Intriguing “Tabby’s Star”

[446] nrao.org - VLA Begins Huge Project of Cosmic Discovery

[447] Chandra / Harvard.edu - Scroll down for video of implications for life

[448] techradar.com - Space telescopes will find earth 2.0, it's just a matter of time

Alpha Centauri / Proxima Centauri / Proxima b

[449] NASA - Hubble space telescope (HST) - Alpha Centauri A&B

[450] NASA - Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of nearest star system

[451] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

[452] New York Times - Planet orbiting our closest neighbor

[453] NPR - Why the discovery of an earth-like planet is such a big deal

Trappist-1 / b, c, d, e, f, g, h

[454] NASA - Press release - 2/22/2017

[455] New York Times - The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding

[456] NASA - Trappist-1 - Older than our solar system

[457] National Geographic - Hubble space telescope (HST) examines exoplanet atmospheres

Contact & Cosmic Consciousness

Science References

[458] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[459] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

[460] Universe Today - Either stars are strange or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us

[461] National Geographic - Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space

[462] CNET - Mysterious signal from deep space goes hyperactive - scroll down for gif of the signal graph

[463] Space.com - 'Alien megastructure' star is dimming again

Popular References

[464] coasttocoast.com - Coast to Coast AM

[465] earthfiles.com - Linda Moulton Howe

[466] kgraradio.com - Jimmy Church Radio - Fade to Black

[467] NPR - Why We Love Aliens - Includes habitable moons

[468] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos - BBC - Carl Sagan on Alien Civilizations

[469] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication

[470] Futurism - Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals When He Thinks We'll Find Aliens

[471] Business Insider - Edward Snowden Talks Alien Communication with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[472] dailygalaxy.com (2016) - NASA Confirms EM Drive - Mars in 70 Days

[473] Star Talk Radio - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Searching for Aliens

[474] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Seeking Intelligent Life

Actualizing the Potential

[475] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[476] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[477] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[478] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

[479] HuffPost - Be Supercoherent — Tune Into Your Consciousness!

[480] elephantjournal.com - The heart is the center of consciousness

[481] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[482] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami

[483] YouTube - Coast to Coast AM - Mel Schwartz - Consciousness and Psychotherapy - Interview starts @ 1:17:00

[484] HuffPost - The Case for Gnosticism, Part 6: A Gnostic Viewpoint on "Alien Abductions"

[485] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

[486] telegraph.co.uk - The science of Close Encounters: could we use music to talk to aliens? - Video from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[487] YouTube - Movieclips - ET: The Extraterrestrial (1982) - "I'll be right here."

[488] heartmeditators.com - Steven Greer Tutorial - How to make ET contact

[489] experiencer.org - Toward an integration of the contact modalities