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This is the world's smallest nanomotor, and it can fit inside your cells

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists hope it will one day fly disease-fighting robots around the human body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Image: <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/05/21/engineers-build-fastest-nanomotor/" style="color: #4c5398; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">The University of Texas at Austin</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Not only is the nanometer tiny, <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/05/21/engineers-build-fastest-nanomotor/" style="color: #4c5398; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">it's also the fastest and longest-running to date</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, it's a big step towards creating miniature machines that could move through the body and deliver insulin for diabetics, or target cancer cells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While these machines haven't been invented as yet, when they are, this will be the device to power them - it's 500 times smaller than a grain of salt, but it can effectively convert electrical energy into mechanical motion and even move through liquids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The team's research <a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140407/ncomms4632/full/ncomms4632.html" style="color: #4c5398; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">has been published in </a><em><a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140407/ncomms4632/full/ncomms4632.html" style="color: #4c5398; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">Nature Communications</a>.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although the nanomotor is less than 1 micrometer in size, it can rotate for 15 continuous hours at a speed of 18,000 RPMs - that's equivalent to the speed of a motor in a jet airplane. Previous models can only move between 14 and 500 RPMs for up to a few minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If that's not impressive enough, they've even shown it can release drugs at a controlled rate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Apparently not everything's bigger in Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Source:</span> <a href="http://sciencealert.com.au/Not%20only%20is%20the%20nanometer%20tiny,%20it's%20also%20the%20fastest%20and%20longest-running%20to%20date.%20%20Developed%20by%20researchers%20at%20the%20University%20of%20Texas%20at%20Austin,%20it's%20a%20big%20step%20towards%20creating%20miniature%20machines%20that%20could%20move%20through%20the%20body%20and%20deliver%20insulin%20for%20diabetics,%20or%20target%20cancer%20cells.%20%20While%20these%20machines%20don't%20work%20as%20yet,%20when%20they've%20been%20invented,%20this%20will%20be%20the%20device%20to%20power%20them%20-%20it's%20500%20times%20smaller%20than%20a%20grain%20of%20salt,%20but%20it%20can%20effectively%20convert%20electrical%20energy%20into%20mechanical%20motion%20and%20even%20move%20through%20liquids.%20%20The%20team's%20paper%20on%20the%20nanomotor%20has%20been%20published%20in%20Nature%20Communications.%20%20The%20nanomotor%20is%20under%201%20micrometer%20in%20size%20and%20can%20rotate%20for%2015%20continuous%20hours%20at%20a%20speed%20of%2018,000%20RPMs%20-%20that's%20equivalent%20to%20the%20speed%20of%20a%20motor%20in%20a%20jet%20airplane.%20%20Previous%20models%20can%20only%20move%20between%2014%20and%20500%20RPMSs%20for%20up%20to%20a%20few%20minutes.%20%20If%20that's%20not%20impressive%20enough,%20they've%20even%20shown%20it%20can%20release%20drugs%20at%20a%20controlled%20rate.%20%20Apparently%20not%20everything's%20bigger%20in%20Texas." style="color: #4c5398; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">The University of Texas at Austin</a></span></div>
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This is the world's smallest nanomotor, and it can fit inside your cells

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Police in Dubai To Get Google Glass

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you always pay attention to how you drive? Personally I do actually try to keep my speed in check, but there is always the local law enforcement to ensure we all drive safely and within the speed limit. If you live in Dubai, however, you will need to be a little more cautious whilst you are behind the wheel, as the local police are planning to start using <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/glass/start/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Glass">Google Glass</a> to search out bad drivers and find vehicles that have been reported stolen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Dubai Police Smart Services Department is testing the wearable tech to see just how practical it could be for traffic enforcement, <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/dubai-police-to-use-google-glass-1.1335784" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Gulf News">Gulf News reports</a>.  General director of the Smart Services Department, Colonel Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi has showed off two unique applications his team has created for its police officers; “One will allow them to take photos of traffic violations from the Glass, which will go instantly into our system, and the other application helps identify wanted cars.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To record an image with the device all you need to do is tap the side of the headset. Photos that are taken by officers will be sent to the system immediately, coupled with the time, location and date that the image was taken. If this technology is to be used to check for wanted or stolen vehicles, all an officer has to do is simply look at the license plate while wearing Google Glass. The tech will then cross-check the number plate with the list of vehicles in the traffic department’s database and then the officer will be alerted if the vehicle is listed as stolen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Colonel Al Razooqi said, “We at Dubai Police always try to adopt what is new in the market and we like to stay up-to-date.”   The Glass project, from <a href="http://www.google.com/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Google">Google</a>, is definitely at the cutting edge of wearable technology, isn’t it?</span></div>
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Butterfleye smart surveillance camera keeps eye with your iPhone

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Butterfleye is a wireless home surveillance camera that’s joining the growing ranks of intelligent, smartphone connected webcam systems designed to keep watch while you’re out and about. In addition to allowing you to check in on a live video feed whenever you like via iPhone, this smart camera comes equipped with a thermal sensor, motion detector, and facial recognition technology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Using a 1080p sensor, video and still shots are captured by the Butterfleye when motion, heat, or faces are detected. Butterfleye’s collection of smart sensors and connected software is branded "Active Eye Technology" by its creators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If your dog or child is particularly camera-friendly, you might get a collection of "selfies" sent to your iPhone throughout the day. Each of these photos will be available for instant sharing with social networks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If your dog, child, or significant other is hanging around the camera while you’re watching live, you can also use Butterfleye camera’s microphone and speaker to converse with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you’re connected to the Butterfleye camera with your iPhone and you come within range of the device, it’ll change modes. The Butterfleye camera’s Wi-Fi and iBeacon technologies detect the iPhone and the camera switches from "away" to "home" mode or "auto shutdown."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Butterfleye is also aiming to integrate the camera into the smart home ecosystem by collaborating with developers for connectivity with additional 3rd-party software and devices. The company says its Active Eye Technology suite will eventually work with devices like the Pebble smartwatch and Jawbone Jambox, as well as intelligent lighting systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At launch, Butterfleye will work with the iPhone only. At the moment there’s no word on whether or not other smartphone models will be adopted into the ecosystem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Butterfleye camera and app is slated to ship in early 2015. At the time of this article’s publication, Butterfleye is still in production, with pre-orders available at a cost of US$199 per unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the video below, the team behind Butterfleye demonstrate its abilities in brief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While the Butterfleye's array of sensors could give it an edge on other wirelessly networked cameras like <a href="https://www.dropcam.com/product" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dropcam</a>, we have seen two very, very similar products aimed at modern "smart" security that are headed to market now or early next year – the Blacksumac Piper and The Canary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With Piper you’ll have many of the abilities offered with Butterfleye, but in a package that’s wired to your wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Canary presents a security solution that’s almost identical to Butterfleye. It has a wide-angle lens with HD capture, motion detection, and the ability to sense a fire. Canary also has a three-axis accelerometer to sense its own movement, night/infrared vision, humidity sensor, temperature sensor, and an air quality detection system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At $199 and set to be delivered this May (after raising $2 million dollars in funding on a $100k goal with <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/canary-the-first-smart-home-security-device-for-everyone" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_Blank">IndeGogo</a> earlier this year) Canary looks to be Butterfleye’s biggest competitor.</span></div>
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Butterfleye smart surveillance camera keeps eye with your iPhone

Butterfleye is a wireless home surveillance camera that’s joining the growing ranks of intelligent, smartphone connected webcam systems d...

7 geeky toys that you control from a smartphone

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">In general, there are two types of toys – toys for kids and toys for grown ups. This post, as you can surely tell after reading its title, is dedicated to the latter category. We have picked some of the coolest gadgets that can be remotely controlled from a smartphone – wirelessly, with the help of a dedicated application. Whether in the air or on solid ground, these are guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun at a time. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Which one would you rather get? Tell us in the comments!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">There is a reason why the makers of this toy are calling it crash-proof. The SmartPlane is capable of analyzing the situation and automatically making adjustments and corrections on the fly. That is why you don't need a PhD in aeronautics to fly one of these, especially when it is controlled from an easy-to-use mobile application. The SmartPlane works with iOS only right now, but Android support should be around the corner.</span><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Price: 49.99 euro</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Meet Sphero 2.0 - a toy like no other. Sure, it looks like nothing but a ball, but inside it is packed a powerful motor that can send the gadget speeding at 7 feet per second. What's more, Sphero is a programmable toy, and kids as young as 8 can learn how to program it. Over 30 apps made for Sphero are now available, giving you even more ways to play.</span><br style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Price: $99</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">This USB-rechargeable car combines real world and in-app driving excitement, using impact sensors that detect damage from other drivers and obstacles. You can drive it on your own, or race a friend with the help of an app that enables bonuses like turbo boosts and virtual attacks. Compatible with iOS devices supporting Bluetooth 4.0 LE.</span><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Price: $99.99</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Spying on people is easier when you have one of these. The Rover Revolution features a rotating spy camera with night vision for exciting stealth missions. And it has a range of 150 feet. Control apps for both Android and iOS are available.</span><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Price: $199</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">It does not get any geekier than this. The AR.Drone 2.0 is equipped with 4 propeller engines and a camera for shooting breath-taking photos and videos in 720p. Amazingly, this gadget can reach an altitude of up to 600 feet. The mobile app lets you do some neat stuff, such as to program paths for the drone to take and actions to perform - great for taking pro-looking movies. This beauty doesn't come cheap, however, especially if you want a fancier drone model.</span><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Price: from $250</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">From the makers of Sphero comes Ollie, which zooms past the competition with its 14mph top speed. At the same time, it is awesomely agile thanks to its tubular design. This allows it to perform a number of tricks, such as to spin, drift, or flip. </span><br style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Coming soon!</span></span></h3>
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Watch 50 Lumia 1020s form the Lumia Arc of Wonder to shoot this impressive bullet-effect video

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Nokia Lumia 1020 has consistently scored on top of our camera ratings with its excellent 41-megapixel PureView camera with ZEISS lens, and pixel oversampling technology, but what if you could film using more than just one Lumia 1020? Renowned NYC director Paul Trillo collaborated with Nokia to show what awesome things can be achieved with some creative thinking and a whopping 50 Lumia 1020s.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Trillo used the 50 handsets to create a bullet-styled video, and to achieve this effect he shaped the devices into a ‘Lumia Arc of Wonder’. The construction allows all those creative video shots you’d see below. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />We’ve already seen HTC use the same bullet-effect trick to showcase the possibilities of the camera on the HTC One, but then it used an even bigger rig of 130 HTC phones. This rig, however, is different in its shape and the video that it shoots differs a lot in its creative angle. Take a look below.</span><br />
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Alien life exists and could be found within 20 years, with enough funding, astronomers tell Congress

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<span style="font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">  </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Two of the world’s preeminent extraterrestrial astronomers (as in,they <em>research</em> extraterrestrials, not that they’re aliens themselves) have told US Congress that there is alien life out there in the universe — and with adequate funding, we could find that alien life within 20 years. This statement was presented to the <span style="color: black;">House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which is currently assessing our efforts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), and whether it should receive more public funding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, you could say that the two astronomers — which both have “SETI” in their job titles — have a slightly vested interest in convincing Congress that there’s life out there. But to be fair, all they really did was tell Congress about the sheer scale of the universe, and that “i<span style="color: black;">t would be bizarre if we are alone,” said Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the <a href="http://www.seti.org/" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">SETI Institute</a>in California. The astronomers cite the nearly-two thousand planets already identified by NASA’s Kepler telescope, and how we estimate that 70% of all stars are accompanied by planets — meaning there’s around one trillion planets in the Milky Way alone. “It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes,” said Shostak, inviting Congress to think about the quintillion or sextillion habitable planets in the entire universe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With that many planets, there’s a “good” chance that there’s alien life somewhere in the universe — but, as Shostak and <span style="color: black;">Dan Wethimer, director of SETI research at the University of California Berkeley told Congress, we won’t find it unless we have the funding. So far, humanity’s efforts to probe deep space for signs of life have been lackluster to say the least. In recent years, it has been <a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">SETI@Home</a>, and that’s about it. Because the universe is vast, and because our radio telescopes can only listen to a tiny fraction of the sky for signs of alien life, we simply haven’t looked in many places. With just a few million dollars in funding — for larger telescopes and more computer processing power — we could turn over many more interstellar rocks. With enough funding, Shostak and Wethimer think we could find alien life as soon as 20 years from now. (As a fun aside, both Shostak and Wethimer also told Congress that they don’t think Earth has ever been visited by aliens. “I don’t think that that would be something all the governments would have managed to keep a secret,” Shostak said.)</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Personally, I’m a little more dubious. Shostak and Wethimer are obviously going to veer towards optimism when billions of delicious research dollars are on the line. Yes, we could cover the Earth in huge parabolic dish antennas and listen really closely for signs of life. [Read: IBM to build exascale supercomputer for the world’s largest, million-antennae telescope.] More realistically, though, increased funding might allow us to listen for faint signals emanating from <em>a few percent</em> of the night sky. In either case, listening for alien radio signals is one hell of a long shot. The odds of an alien civilization being advanced enough to produce strong radio signals, and sending them in our direction — remember, the universe is almost infinitely large — are tiny. Furthermore, and perhaps more importantly, our two civilizations would have to overlap. Human civilization is tens of thousands of years old, but we have only been able to transmit and measure radio signals for less than 100 of those. The universe has been around for almost 14 billion years — what if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy a million years ago, or a billion years ago, or 10 billion years ago, but their radio signals washed over us long before we could hear them? [Read: Alien spotting: By 2020, we’ll finally have the ability to locate life-harboring, alien planets.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And how long do you think <em>we</em> will be around? Another 100 years? Probably. Another 1,000 years? If we’re lucky. In the grand, utterly stupendous scale of the universe, humans are the tiniest of blips — and it stands to good reason that any other intelligent civilization would be exactly the same. The big exception, of course, is if there is an alien civlization out there that has survived for millions of years and has already populated multiple star systems or galaxies. In that case, there’s a pretty good chance that our civilizations (and thus SETI efforts) would overlap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, whether we actually <em>want</em> to find a highly advanced empire that has colonized multiple galaxies is another question entirely. I don’t think humanity would cope very well with suddenly being number two on the food chain…</span></div>
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Alien life exists and could be found within 20 years, with enough funding, astronomers tell Congress

Two of the world’s preeminent extraterrestrial astronomers (as in,they research extraterrestrials, not that they’re aliens themselves...