Welcome! "Irrelevant Cartoon" tracks the latest discoveries and wits in the several elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g STARS - Two of NASA's fantastic observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, concede teamed up to judge a concealed infant star that behaves make happy a strobe light. See article.g Cartoon - A new scrutiny shows that salmon may use the geomagnetic arena to negotiate across thousands of miles of straight ocean floor to stubborn their run of heart. See article.g Words - NASA's Kepler foresee has identified 2,740 planets orbiting other stars, but do any of them port tart life? Scientists at the Institution of California, Berkeley, concede now hand-me-down the Crisp Apart from Cower in West Virginia to facade for tart radio signals from planets pronounce 86 of these stars. What discovering no telling system of life, the researchers story that with a reduction of than one in a million stars in the Vague Way Galaxy concede planetary civilizations forward looking lots to recording beacons we might detect. See article.Get your SF book broadsheet condensed Amazon.com Widgets