Dirk Schulze-Makuch
The Overview Effect: Why We Should Speed Up Space Exploration
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Life beyond EaRTH
The blog
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Can Humanity Handle Alien Contact and its Consequences?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jul 2
- 1 min
On The Possibility of Silicon-Based Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jun 24
- 2 min
Preparing for the Discovery of Alien Life
Exploring Otherness on Earth and Beyond
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Death from Outer Space
Posted on Big Think
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jun 3
- 1 min
Follow the Salt if You Want to Find Life on Mars
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jun 2
- 3 min
Could We All Be Martians?
Revisiting Panspermia: did life come from outside of Earth?
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- May 31
- 1 min
How Common is Life in the Universe?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- May 14
- 1 min
Were Humans the First and Only Intelligent Species on Earth?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- May 11
- 2 min
A Recent Discovery Could Unravel the Mystery of Martian Methane
A Window to Life in the Deep Subsurface
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Apr 29
- 1 min
Alien Message to be Sent into Space
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Apr 28
- 3 min
Three Myths of Planetary Protection
What’s First? A Life-Detection or a Human Mission to Mars?
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Apr 13
- 1 min
What Do Aliens Look Like?
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Apr 8
- 3 min
A Promising Method for Life-Detection
Microbial Motility
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Alien Life: What Would Constitute “Smoking Gun” Evidence?
Multiple lines of evidence must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Mar 24
- 2 min
News from The German SETI Workshop
Be Prepared for Alien Contact
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Mar 17
- 3 min
Science of Aliens, Part 11:
Could Aliens Get Cancer?
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Mar 10
- 3 min
After a Nuclear War:
Meet the Species That May Come After Humans
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Mar 3
- 3 min
Life on the Early Moon?
An Outrageous Hypothesis Re-Evaluated
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Habitable Conditions in the Martian Subsurface
But Let's Not Forget Habitable Niches in Salts, Ices, and Caves!
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Feb 10
- 3 min
The Science of Aliens, Part 10: Will an Alien Biosphere be Toxic?
Probably - That's Why Planetary Protection Guidelines Need to Be Enforced
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Feb 3
- 3 min
The Mass Extinction Event that Led to the Reign of The Dinosaurs
The “Kill Mechanism” Similar to Global Warming Today.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jan 27
- 3 min
The Evidence for Life on Mars Is Getting Stronger and Stronger
Light Carbon, Organic Molecules, and Habitats with Liquid Water.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Science of Aliens, Part 9: Was Humanity Visited in Ancient History?
An Analysis of UAP in Classical Antiquity.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Huge Amounts of Water Discovered in the Valles Marineris Canyon on Mars
A life detection mission should explore it.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Jan 6
- 3 min
Ammonia may be the Key to Life in the Venusian Clouds
One challenge for life resolved (perhaps), but others remain.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
The Science of Aliens, Part 8: The Search for Artifacts
New instrumentation can aid scientists in determining whether recovered material from UAP is of extraterrestrial origin or not.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Dec 22, 2021
- 3 min
Returning Samples Collected by the Perseverance Rover from Mars to Earth
The Design and Construction of the Sample Receiving Facility must start now.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
The Science of Aliens, Part 7: How Would WE React to Discovering Alien Life
Ready or not, this discovery is likely to happen soon. In anticipation of discovering alien life, conferences have been held on what such...
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
The Idea of Microbial Life in the Venusian Atmosphere is NOT dead
On the first day of the Venera D Cloud Habitability System workshop, the idea whether the clouds of Venus are habitable was center-stage.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
How Science Can Help Us to Understand the Past but also Tackle Earth´s Future Challenges
Earlier this week, the Breakthrough Initiatives held the scientific meeting Life in the Universe 2021: Our Past, Present, and Future Selves.