Medical School Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Graduated: 1988
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Dr. Turner graduated from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 1988. He works in Minnetonka, MN and specializes in Emergency Medicine.
Assuming that aliens need light to see at night much as we do, theoretical astrophysicist Abraham Loeb at Harvard University and astronomer Edwin Turner at Princeton University reasoned that extraterrestrial civilizations would switch on city lights during the hours of darkness on their world
To search for advanced extraterrestrial societies, Avi Loeb of Harvard University and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggest in a new paper, astronomers should look for city lights on distant planets. The technology already exists to look for Tokyo-sized cities at the edges of Earths own sola
Date: Nov 04, 2011
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Could city lights help locate alien civilisations?
Loeb and Edwin Turner from Princeton University calculate that today's best telescopes ought to be able to see the light generated by a Tokyo-sized megalopolis at the distance of the Kuiper Belt - the region occupied by Pluto, Eris and thousands of smaller icy bodies.
Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University say they're going on the assumption aliens would use Earth-like technologies and that any intelligent life that evolved in the light from its nearest star is likely to have artificial illumination t
Burkburnett Junior High School Burkburnett TX 1969-1971, Alamogordo Mid-High School Alamogordo NM 1971-1971, Holloman Junior High School Holloman Afb NM 1971-1972
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