Listener Challenge: Are We Alone in the Universe?

The Where, the Why, and the HowFor all of our scientific advances, there are still many questions that remain unanswered. In the new book The Where, the Why, and the How, artists take a stab at explaining those mysteries. For this challenge, we asked you to create an illustration to answer the following question:

     Are we alone in the universe?

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January 23, 2013 02:27:37 AM
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it's all about the mystery of what's out there and how we correlate to it. we yearn for contact.

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ariel

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January 23, 2013 02:02:49 AM
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Wondering how other life forms could look?

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 02:00:24 AM
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2nd of 3 in Series of 3....same thought about art conveying emotion to other beings

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 01:56:12 AM
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1 of a series of 3 images with an emotional element, earthy and raw. Can art be a communication tool that would translate feelings and emotions to other life forms with a variety of mental and language abilities as it is with various human world/earth cultures?

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 01:44:15 AM
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This "Dream Tree" image might suggest that in the universe of the mind aloneness is impossible and so that I would summize that human man alone in the universe is not very probable either.

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 01:36:29 AM
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Are this earth's humans a type of being with mental abilities as a daffodil is a type of flower with specific properties?

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 01:29:24 AM
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desire of human man to create is the mind using physical properties to attain the unknown

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 01:15:36 AM
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I've titled this BALANCE...interacting with forces outside the self perhaps?

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Veronica

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January 23, 2013 01:03:34 AM
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My serious point is that we're far from alone on our planet. I poke fun at the conceit that humans are apart from the rest of nature. Let's make progress communicating with other mammals before trying it with aliens.

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Stephen

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January 22, 2013 09:18:00 PM
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shiguy101

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January 22, 2013 07:43:48 PM
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Stargazing is a passion of mine, so questions of the universe are not unfamiliar to me. As a kid I always answered "no" because I looked up into the night sky and saw the stars - back then it was as simple as that. I still don't think we're alone.

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January 22, 2013 04:23:05 PM
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The diptych created from my original "Reproduction" series, depicts a surreal version of procreation which I envision taking place at all times in all places. Valetta 2013

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Valetta

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January 22, 2013 09:09:56 AM
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I think when we start to explore the universe, the experience will be more like Lonely Planet-style traveling than Star Trek: backpacks, not uniforms. This is my vision of the fellow occupants of the cheap shared room at a hostel on another planet. Hopefully humanity will be more like the Kiwis (from New Zealand) than like us Americans....

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Rob

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January 21, 2013 10:36:51 PM
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This is a Transformations print titled BETWEEN WORLDS #2 and is part of an ongoing series exploring outer and inner space.

From the dust of stars we sprung as life and to the dust of stars/worlds we will return.

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Paedra

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January 21, 2013 10:24:44 PM
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This is a Transformations print on canvas 85"h x 66"w titled CONCEPTION 1
and is part of an ongoing series exploring outer and inner space.

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Paedra

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January 21, 2013 09:10:45 PM
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The title of this piece is "Friends Through All Of Space & Time" It's made using acrylic paint on paper and it is the fourth in a series of four similar paintings that I did under your theme 'Are We Alone In The Universe?'

I really loved the stories of Neuroscience & Memory episode of your show, I hope you do something like this again it was very creatively inspiring.

I don't think anyone is ever alone in the universe.

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Lee

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January 21, 2013 09:07:12 PM
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The title of this piece is "Are We Alone In The Universe." It's made using acrylic paint on paper and it is the third in a series of four similar paintings that I did under your theme 'Are We Alone In The Universe?'

I really loved the stories of Neuroscience & Memory episode of your show, I hope you do something like this again it was very creatively inspiring.

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Lee

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January 21, 2013 08:55:34 PM
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The title of this piece is "Momma I Still See Stars" It's made using acrylic paint on paper and it is the second in a series of four similar paintings that I did under your theme 'Are We Alone In The Universe?'

I really loved the stories of Neuroscience & Memory episode of your show I hope you do something like this again it was very creatively inspiring.

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Lee

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January 21, 2013 08:50:26 PM
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The title of this piece is "Momma I see stars" It's made using acrylic paint on paper and it is the first in a series of four similar paintings that I did under your theme 'Are We Alone In The Universe?'

I really loved the stories of Neuroscience & Memory episode of your show I hope you doing something like this again it was very creatively inspiring.

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Lee

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January 21, 2013 02:40:26 PM
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The title is "Sojourner." It is a mixed media drawing/collage and is part of a body of work that comes directly out of a memory (with evidence in the form of a story written at age 7)of having truly believed for a period of about a year that I had travelled to outer space during surgery while having a tooth removed.

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Erin

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