... | |Aliens | |http://www.listenAminute.com/a/aliens.html | |[pic] | |One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. | |Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in this short text. | |Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. | |Listen many times – enough for you to you understand everything. | | | |Follow me: http://twitter.com/SeanBanville | [pic] THE LISTENING TAPESCRIPT From: http://www.listenAminute.com/a/aliens.html There are aliens out there, somewhere. I strongly...
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...controversy, mystery and new discoveries. Humans have struggled with the possibility of the existence of intelligent life out there in the galaxy. The developed world has spent billions of dollars in deep space exploration in an endeavor to understand what exactly is out there. People have been fascinated by alien life forms a fact which can be seen in the many successful movies on the subject. The many reported cases of unidentified flying objects that are still a mystery and which have generated conspiracy theories that have fanatical believers (Arnold.112). There are tales of flying saucers and elaborate accounts of encounters with aliens. With all these conspiracies theories, TV shows, movies and alien life form fascination, it hard to decipher the fiction from the reality. E.T. moved movie audiences with a story of friendship between an alien and a human. Star Wars stretched the human imagination and demonstrated the possibility of an enterprise with human and alien life forms out there in the galaxy. The Stargate series adds the concept of time travel and the use of alien technology to defend the earth from hostile aliens. It depicts a complex relationship between humans and aliens in strategic alliances driven by mutual interest and the greed for power and influence on a universal level. Hollywood is dynamic on the issue of aliens because it has cast good aliens such as Superman and those that are a threat as seen in Independence Day. In essence the question as whether we...
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...10 9 December 2015 Extraterrestrial Life Really Does Exists Philosophers and astronomers alike have always been always asked one question, “Are we alone?” The existence of alien life has been a controversial topic since before the earliest civilizations. There have been countless hoaxes trying to prove the existence of aliens, but there are also a number of compelling reasons that support the existence of alien life. For example, there is a high probability they exist based on statistics, because life can travel from planet to planet, and there have been thousands of extraterrestrial sightings and encounters; it is highly probable that aliens exist. First off, aliens can be proven to be real by some simple probability and statistics. Our solar system is just one of tens of billions of solar systems in just the Milky Way Galaxy. There are so many possibilities of life in just one galaxy, and there are hundreds of billions of galaxy’s in the universe! Earth is just one of a seemingly endless amount of planets, so it’s hard to imagine that Earth has the only abundance of life in the entire known universe. Also, in the article, “The Likelihood of Extraterrestrial Life” it explains that all humans are made up of three main elements: hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. Actually, all known life is mainly composed of these “ingredients”. This knowledge suggests that there are many extraterrestrials to be found across the cosmos because all life is made of the same things. This means...
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...Aliens have always been a mystery. Aliens started to make their appearance in ancient history. Historical landmarks have been claimed to have been built by aliens. There are a lot of UFO sightings. There are mysteries even science cannot explain. Which raises the question, do aliens exist? Aliens have shown signs in history with weird unexplained landmarks. “Pyramids were found on Mars”(Jasper Hamill). So is that where our pyramid design came from? “In ancient Peru, archeologists have uncovered mummified remains with enlonged skulls”(History.co.uk). Scientists claim Mars once supported life and has signs of water underground”(Jasper Hamill). Aliens have to exist because of how large our universe is. Scientists have found alien planets that have an atmosphere and could support life. “Water is a key ingredient for life and is very common in our solar system”(ABC News). Unexplained signals have been discovered from outer space as well. It is believed this is someone trying to communicate. They are just too far away for us to pick up the signal. Aliens could very well exist with all of these planets and signs we have discovered. Some scientists ask if there is life why haven’t we communicated? “Some scientists say there is no way to make contact because they are too far...
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...Aliens, do they exist? That is a huge question that people are asking today. Before I did research on this topic I didn’t really know how I personally would answer that question. I of course leaned toward no but then again I was always wondering if maybe they were out there. My dad and I like to watch history documentaries and I had watched several documentaries on aliens. But every time I watched them they would show these weird sightings being caught on camera. The fact that they didn’t know how to explain it always made me wonder what it could really be. However after researching the topic I can say with surety that there are not aliens in space. This was a very interesting topic to research. There were many points in the articles, from Creation Ministries, brought out that do a very good job of making the idea of aliens a childhood dream. I liked the author's way of explaining the topic, making it very clear that Aliens truly existing is the excuse of those denying God. I find it interesting that so many people really do believe this with absolute surety. But then one can see that they want to believe...
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...Ridley Scott’s Alien provides us with one of the most basic and primal super-objectives: the preservation life. Our protagonist, Ellen Ripley, faces impossible odds as a seemingly invincible alien predator wreaks havoc on the crew of the Nostromo, taking them out one by one until she is the last man (or in this case, woman) standing. In most every horror, or as Blake Snyder would call it, “Monster in the House” film, the super-objective is to preserve life. Some, however, are more successful than others in conveying that idea, and Alien is perhaps the most triumphant of the bunch. The screenwriter, Dan O’Bannon, heavily juxtaposed the frailty of man with the invincibility of the alien. Neither bullets, nor electricity, nor fire can harm the creature, while it possesses a variety of methods of attack, from corrosive blood to razor sharp teeth. Therein lies the strength of the film’s super-objective: though the alien could easily kill them all, Ripley fights to survive. Alien is one of the few films in which the inciting incident is the very first event. The crew of the Nostromo, on their way back to Earth with twenty million tons of mineral ore, receive a mysterious transmission from a nearby planetoid and are prematurely rousted from their slumber to investigate. Getting that transmission subsequently led to the crew landing on the planetoid, finding the eggs, unknowingly bringing a deadly predator back to their ship, and dooming them all to a grisly death. Well, all but one...
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...ever wondered if there are any extraterrestrial life forms in the universe? An extraterrestrial is defined as life that does not originate from Earth. It is often also referred to as alien. “Alien” is a very familiar word even though many of us have never met or seen them. They are in TV or movies, and especially the Hollywood productions love to make movies about extraterrestrials. For example, ET (1982) is one of the famous SF movies. The alien, ET is very friendly to people, and it has an ability of making object flying. Since they are only a part of blockbuster movies, most of times people are careless about aliens; however, there are many incidents that show they are real. There are three significant signs that prove they are real such as we are able to suspect another life form in an infinite universe, have UFO sighting everywhere in the world, and have experiences of many people’s alien abduction. First, there must be another life form among the limitless galaxies. Since the universe began in the Big Bang about 15 billion years ago, it has constantly expanded. Therefore, the universe is infinite and Earth is just considered like a grain of sand. The universe is divided into two parts; the observable and the non-observable. There are countless planets and solar systems in the observable universe. Is it true that the Earth is the only planet where life exits in the infinite universe? If there are sunlight and water, life forms could be existed. Therefore, in the universe...
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...everyone in the elders believed. That the demon was peeved Scientists are urged to seek contact with aliens gone the silken shroud Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Poetry of Play and Pleasure romance and again divined? Music and Moonlight sucks up not ever see you, peeling away your Yoda the one for me . Technological comedy of reality he could possibly hinder you I love you more than Sheldon loves his Meemaw everyone in the elders believed. That the demon was peeved Scientists are urged to seek contact with aliens gone the silken shroud Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Poetry of Play and Pleasure romance and again divined? Music and Moonlight sucks up not ever see you, peeling away your Yoda the one for me . Technological comedy of reality he could possibly hinder you I love you more than Sheldon loves his Meemaw everyone in the elders believed. That the demon was peeved Scientists are urged to seek contact with aliens gone the silken shroud Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Poetry of Play and Pleasure romance and again divined? Music and Moonlight sucks up not ever...
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...Aliens In my opinion I don’t think there is Aliens. As the bible says God created life only on earth , therefore there is no life on other planate there for there is no Aliens too. There is no proof of Aliens existence. The chance of life existing on other planate is very low. As it been discovered by different scientist’s other planets don’t have the things that life need to survive. There are some TV shows that they use human testimony as an evidence of Aliens existence. As an example I remember watching a TV show that tells a story of one person who was lost for one or two days and found. The person was telling the story and as the person testimony he said that he was drunk on the day he was lost and he said...
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...What do the movies E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Prometheus, Aliens, and The Fourth Kind have in common? They are all about extra-terrestrial life! These movies will send shivers down some people’s spines, and others will roll their eyes at it. The debate over extra-terrestrial life has been going on for decades and it has given rise to one simple yet hard to answer question: Do other life forms exist? Many people are firm believers in the presence of other life forms on Earth and in outer space because of the monumental amount of evidence that supports the presence of these mysterious creatures. Thousands of years ago, people began documenting the first sightings of aliens. Only these primitive people did not go to their local police station. Instead, they recorded their sightings in a universal language that everyone could understand: art. One...
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...Picture an alien lifeform. A prodigiously elongated head unproportionate to the size of its lanky body. Its arms extending so far it exceeds its knee caps. Legs that are shorter than the size of its upper body creating an off balanced proportion of the average human physique. Skin the color of an emerald, and fingers that reach out so far they double, possibly triple, the length of human fingers. An ear cavity placed slightly above its extended neck, as well as jet black eyes resembling the darkness of a midnight sky. Where did the initial idea of a lifeform like this originate? Was it simply the result of someone's imagination, or has there been untold proof of such creatures? Throughout centuries people have gone public with encounters that they said to have had with an alien or alien related object; however, despite the numerous claims, governmental officials have persistently proclaimed that confirmation of...
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...Alien travelling to targeted planet of peace and luxury Aliens hit a meteorite Ship comes crashing down quickly to earth Aliens land in the sea Aliens get washed up across different countries Main character ends up in Sydney, Australia Alien walks around in search for his family/alien food Alien spots human life and immediately makes the mistake of trying to communicate with an old man outside a shop (joke as alien reads out the name (Tes-cooo) old man tries to hit the alien and it runs away,hides in an alley and sleeps the night next to some bins (describe the smell,surroundings,cold weather) Trash collector walks by the following morning and screams when she sees the alien After lots of uncertainty, the young woman talks to the alien and they begin to form and understanding The alien tells the woman that he is lost and very hungry Woman hides him in her wheelie bin and whisks him away to her home. Alien looks around the new environment of the home and knocks things over. Woman is surprisingly forgiving of the aliens accidents and the alien takes shelter in her room and eats beans on toast. (he is tentative to taste it at first but after one spoonful he downs it in one) Alien sleeps and mourns over being away from his family for the first time. Alien wakes up to hear the woman and her boyfriend arguing about her keeping an alien in the house. Woman introduces boyfriend to alien and alien smiles whilst boyfriend gives off a disgusted...
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...in fact it is an actual synthetic element that has yet to survive for more than a thousandth of a second. All that is needed are scientists who can stabilize the element to survive longer. The same goes for extraterrestrials. Just because no one has found them, it does not prove they do not exist. Extraterrestrials are any form of life that does not originate, or did not originate from Earth. When people think of aliens, they imagine creatures like Megamind, E.T., and many others that they have seen on television or read about in fiction books. What people really forget is that life can be as simple as an individual cell, or a microbe; so when asked, without thinking, many people say they do not believe in the possibility of life elsewhere. Over the years, scientists have dedicated a significant amount of their life looking for any type of evidence. There is a great possibility of extraterrestrial life existing on other planets as is evidenced by the history of the universe, the extant research, and the expanse of the universe. The past of the universe substantiates the possibility of aliens living on other worlds. In order to find the proof of life, the scientists have intensely studied planet Mars. About 16 million years ago, the collision of an asteroid with Mars blasted martian rocks in space; Earth’s gravity attracted one of these rocks and it landed in Antarctica. The rock sample from Mars was named ALH84001. Attached to it the scientists found, “fossilized (stone-like)...
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...How much has alien sightings affected the everyday life of the public people? The experts say that in the late 1960’s many people reported UFO sighting. But many did not have enough evidence to be confirmed as real “but it goes without saying that that cases such as Roswell continues to intrigue the research community” (Losey.1). But it is pretty clear that they have not told us the full story. But to claim that we don’t get to see good solid evidence from the military, government and intelligence agencies is just plain wrong. To put it bluntly there are some solid reports that go far but that statement is plain wrong. “There are countless reports that very solid of UFO activities and have reach the hands of the officials” (Losey.2). Which have been given to the public via FOLA, and different other websites all over the internet but if you really want to know learn about aliens, you just need to know where to find them. One example is one particular document of 23 June, 1949. That describes the encounter of a pilot who had served in the navy during WWII, who was described as being married with three kids, and with a BS and BA degree from the...
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...16. Will they be Friendly? One question that has plagued the minds of many an educated mind while living on planet earth is the existence of alien life. The earth, which is often referred to as ‘the world’, is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest of the eight planets in our Solar System. The earth is only a tiny part of our universe, which is made up of many planets, galaxies, clusters and super clusters. With such an enormous universe, it would be outrageous to even contemplate that there is no extraterrestrial life out there. With this question being so prominent, another question arises and that is ‘if there is other species of life out there, will they be friendly?’ From this question, we can make an assessment on whether we should be advertising our presence by sending messages to stars or just staying quiet. Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from earth. ‘Referred to as alien life, or simply aliens these hypothetical forms of life range from simple bacteria-like organisms to beings far more complex than humans’1. Earth is moderately young compared to the rest of the universe, so therefore one can only assume these extra-terrestrials would be far more advanced and complex then ourselves. Although many scientists consider extra-terrestrial life to be plausible, no direct evidence has yet been found. If they do exist, we come back to our will they be friendly question, and we can use certain theories to explore this. A phrase that...
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