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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:12:02 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Time to Plan for a Mission to Alpha Centauri</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Alpha Centauri system is reachable in a human lifetime, why should we mount an interstellar mission? Continue reading →]]></description>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>aliens</category>
						<category>alpha centauri</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
						<category>interstellar</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:58:58 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Time to Plan for a Mission to Alpha Centauri</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The Alpha Centauri system is reachable in a human lifetime, why should we mount an interstellar mission? Continue reading →]]></media:description>
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			<title>Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Using a refurbished radio dish in California, Lone Signal hopes to create the world&#039;s first continuous transmission to message intelligent extraterrestrials. Continue reading →]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/crowd-funded-radio-beacon-will-message-aliens-130612.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>aliens</category>
						<category>Extraterrestrial Life</category>
						<category>meti</category>
						<category>Radio</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
			
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:03:26 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Using a refurbished radio dish in California, Lone Signal hopes to create the world&#039;s first continuous transmission to message intelligent extraterrestrials. Continue reading →]]></media:description>
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			<title>The Wow! Signal: Intercepted Alien Transmission?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[36 years ago, a brief radio signal was detected by an observatory in Ohio. Could it have been an extraterrestrial transmission? Continue reading →]]></description>
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			<author>Markus Hammonds</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>aliens</category>
						<category>Radio Astronomy</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
			
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:20:24 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">The Wow! Signal: Intercepted Alien Transmission?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[36 years ago, a brief radio signal was detected by an observatory in Ohio. Could it have been an extraterrestrial transmission? Continue reading →]]></media:description>
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			<title>Playing Lotto With E.T.</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The odds are miserable and massively against the detection techno-aliens in the newly discovered Kepler-62 system. But like lottery players, we&#039;re going to try anyway.   Continue reading →]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/playing-lotto-with-e-t-130423.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Larry O&#039;Hanlon</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>aliens</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
						<category>Kepler</category>
						<category>kepler-62</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Skepticism</category>
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:19:40 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Playing Lotto With E.T.</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The odds are miserable and massively against the detection techno-aliens in the newly discovered Kepler-62 system. But like lottery players, we&#039;re going to try anyway.   Continue reading →]]></media:description>
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			<title>How Habitable Are Kepler&#039;s New Worlds?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week’s announcement of two “super-Earth” type planets sharing the habitable zone around Kepler-62 ratcheted up our optimism that life-bearing planets are all over the galaxy. Continue reading →]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/how-habitable-are-keplers-new-worlds-130422.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
						<category>Extrasolar Planets</category>
						<category>Extraterrestrial Life</category>
						<category>keper-63</category>
						<category>Kepler Mission</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:31:04 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">How Habitable Are Kepler&#039;s New Worlds?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Last week’s announcement of two “super-Earth” type planets sharing the habitable zone around Kepler-62 ratcheted up our optimism that life-bearing planets are all over the galaxy. Continue reading →]]></media:description>
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			<title>Kepler-62 is a Ripe SETI Target</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The recent Kepler-62 discovery is like &quot;exoplanetary gold&quot; for SETI scientists who are on the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligences.  -&gt;]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/kepler-62-is-a-ripe-seti-target-13041.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>aliens</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
						<category>Extrasolar Planets</category>
						<category>Kepler</category>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:27:25 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Kepler-62 is a Ripe SETI Target</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The recent Kepler-62 discovery is like &quot;exoplanetary gold&quot; for SETI scientists who are on the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligences.  -&gt;]]></media:description>
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			<title>Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The answer to whether or not we are alone in the universe could be right under our nose, or, more literally, inside every cell in our body.  -&gt;]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/could-an-alien-message-be-embedded-in-our-genetic-code-130401.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Biology</category>
						<category>genetic engineering</category>
						<category>panspermia</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:27:30 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The answer to whether or not we are alone in the universe could be right under our nose, or, more literally, inside every cell in our body.  -&gt;]]></media:description>
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			<title>Could WE Probe ET With Interstellar Radar?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Building a huge radar system to bridge vast interstellar distances may not be such a silly idea.  -&gt;]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/an-interstellar-radar-for-spying-on-inhabitable-worlds-130313.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:29:12 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Could WE Probe ET With Interstellar Radar?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Building a huge radar system to bridge vast interstellar distances may not be such a silly idea.  -&gt;]]></media:description>
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			<title>Mystery SETI Signal Set Rules of Engagement</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In the Fall of 1967, a small team of radio astronomers came face-to-face with a profound mystery that they didn&#039;t want to be true.  -&gt;]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/first-seti-candidate-set-rules-of-engagement-130305.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>aliens</category>
						<category>Astrophysics</category>
						<category>Pulsars</category>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:07:21 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Mystery SETI Signal Set Rules of Engagement</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[In the Fall of 1967, a small team of radio astronomers came face-to-face with a profound mystery that they didn&#039;t want to be true.  -&gt;]]></media:description>
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			<title>Space Invaders Unlikely -- For Now</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Research suggests that it is unlikely we&#039;ll be attacked by renegade aliens. That&#039;s a relief.  -&gt;]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/space-invaders-unlikely-for-now-130214.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>invasion</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Star Wars</category>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:53:01 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Space Invaders Unlikely -- For Now</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Research suggests that it is unlikely we&#039;ll be attacked by renegade aliens. That&#039;s a relief.  -&gt;]]></media:description>
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			<title>No Alien Signals Detected in Kepler SETI Search</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In an effort to search for intelligent extraterrestrials, SETI astronomers have completed their first &quot;directed&quot; search using Kepler data.  -&gt;]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/no-transmitting-aliens-detected-in-seti-kepler-search-130207.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
						<category>Kepler Mission</category>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:10:25 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">No Alien Signals Detected in Kepler SETI Search</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[In an effort to search for intelligent extraterrestrials, SETI astronomers have completed their first &quot;directed&quot; search using Kepler data.  -&gt;]]></media:description>
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			<title>First &#039;Alien Earth&#039; Will Be Found in 2013</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The epic find should change the way humanity views its place in the universe.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/first-alien-earth-will-be-found-in-2013-experts-say-121227.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>The DNews Editors</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Amateur Astronomy</category>
						<category>Astronauts</category>
						<category>Astrophysics</category>
						<category>Cosmology</category>
						<category>Earth</category>
						<category>Europa</category>
						<category>Extrasolar Planets</category>
						<category>Science Fiction</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Space People</category>
						<category>Space Travel</category>
						<category>Stars</category>
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">First &#039;Alien Earth&#039; Will Be Found in 2013</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The epic find should change the way humanity views its place in the universe.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Do Robots Rule the Galaxy?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In a technology-fueled Armageddon, super-intelligent robots might eventually succeed us and humanity will face extinction.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/do-robots-rule-the-galaxy-121201.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Science Fiction</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Technology</category>
						<category>weird</category>
			
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Do Robots Rule the Galaxy?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[In a technology-fueled Armageddon, super-intelligent robots might eventually succeed us and humanity will face extinction.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>SETI Search for ET&#039;s Black Hole Engines</title>
			<description><![CDATA[With the God-like powers available from a home-built subatomic black hole, interstellar travel would become a practical spinoff for an adventurous alien empire bent and colonizing the galaxy.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/a-seti-search-for-black-hole-power-plants-121121.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Space</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Black Hole</category>
			
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:30:11 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">SETI Search for ET&#039;s Black Hole Engines</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[With the God-like powers available from a home-built subatomic black hole, interstellar travel would become a practical spinoff for an adventurous alien empire bent and colonizing the galaxy.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>SETI Institute Gets $3.5 Million Donation</title>
			<description><![CDATA[California-based ET-hunters received the donation from the co-founder of communication company Qualcomm to beef up its radio search for extraterrestrials.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/et-hunters-get-35-million-donation-121115.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Irene Klotz</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Extrasolar Planets</category>
						<category>Radio Astronomy</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:07:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">SETI Institute Gets $3.5 Million Donation</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[California-based ET-hunters received the donation from the co-founder of communication company Qualcomm to beef up its radio search for extraterrestrials.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Angry Aliens? Call Obama</title>
			<description><![CDATA[More than two-thirds of a U.S. poll say President Barack Obama would be better suited than Mitt Romney to handle an alien invasion.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/angry-aliens-call-obama-121113.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Irene Klotz</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Humor</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Weird News</category>
						<category>Extraterrestrial Life</category>
						<category>Obama</category>
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:46:19 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Angry Aliens? Call Obama</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[More than two-thirds of a U.S. poll say President Barack Obama would be better suited than Mitt Romney to handle an alien invasion.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Looking for Alien &#039;Bubbles&#039; in Other Galaxies</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A super-civilization might begin a wave of colonization that spread out to neighboring stars and enclose them in a cluster of Dyson spheres.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/looking-for-alien-bubbles-in-other-galaxies-120731.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:18:28 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Looking for Alien &#039;Bubbles&#039; in Other Galaxies</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[A super-civilization might begin a wave of colonization that spread out to neighboring stars and enclose them in a cluster of Dyson spheres.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Could Terrorist Aliens Cyberattack Us?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Maybe any bellicose extraterrestrials would prefer to attack us at the speed of light, literally.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/could-terrorist-aliens-cyberattack-us-120705.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Weird News</category>
						<category>weird</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Science Fiction</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:35:33 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Could Terrorist Aliens Cyberattack Us?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Maybe any bellicose extraterrestrials would prefer to attack us at the speed of light, literally.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Hollywood Aliens Are Our Own Projections</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Hollywood-invented aliens are an abysmal failure of imagination.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/hollywood-aliens-are-our-own-projections-120603.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Science Fiction</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:38:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Hollywood Aliens Are Our Own Projections</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Hollywood-invented aliens are an abysmal failure of imagination.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>No Intelligent Aliens Detected in Gliese 581</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Using a powerful network of radio telescopes in Australia, no chatty aliens appear to be living around the red dwarf star Gliese 581.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/no-intelligent-aliens-in-gleise-581-are-home-120602.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Extrasolar Planets</category>
						<category>Kepler Mission</category>
						<category>Radio Astronomy</category>
						<category>SETI</category>
						<category>Space</category>
			
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">No Intelligent Aliens Detected in Gliese 581</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Using a powerful network of radio telescopes in Australia, no chatty aliens appear to be living around the red dwarf star Gliese 581.]]></media:description>
			
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