Aliens are out there-a dedicated search for life begins
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There’s a roving eye watching deep space for signs that the truth—or at least other Earth-like planets or even life—is out there, and we’re going to get a glimpse of what it’s watch this week. The $600 million Kepler observatory is tracking a small piece of sky filled with some 4.5 million stars, and the potential “Goldilocks” planets lurking between them, the New York Times reports. “We will find Earth-size planets in habitable zones,” says one scientist.
On Wednesday, scientists will unveil a list of 400 stars that are the most likely to support planets; in the next few years, researchers expect to find “Earths” by detecting small changes in stars’ light emission as planets orbit them. But there could be “hundreds of planet candidates that may never be fully vetted as planets,” notes one scientist. “We just have to live with statistics.” And if we strike out, and don’t find other life, “maybe we’re going to go conquer the whole galaxy,” says the lead scientist. “Nobody’s out there to stop us.”
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In the two or three decades SETI has been searching the sky 24/7, only once did they see something that might have been an organized wave, but they never saw it again.
We certainly don’t have a universe highly populated with intelligent (as we understand it) life.
And that’s the thing, there may be lots of “intelligent,” self aware beings out there, but they just aint living life on our terms.
I agree SH. I’ve long maintained that the universe could be little more than a persistent virus in the belly of a giant beast.
SETI’s inability to detect intelligent life on other planets is not really an argument that no intelligent life exists anywhere else unless we think that if it did, SETI’s efforts would likely find it. Not even SETI makes that claim.
I am not sure how people are so sure there is no life on any other planet. Sounds sort like religious faith to me. At least you are not crediting God with your knowledge of no extra terrestrial life, which would add a level of annoyance to the claim that I can less tolerate.
I had a professor who worked on the SETI project. John is absolutely correct, otherwise, SETI scientists would give up the search for intelligent life and become, perhaps, oceanographers to explore a world that coexists with us but about which we know little.
To assume that there is no other intelligent life in the universe, which is continually, expanding, is the height of hubris.
b b b b b but doesn’t god says otherwise
Tom didn’t you get the memo? God is an alien.
I did not get that Mike but it makes more sense than the nonsense. So it was god these people were depicting. He brought some henchman along as well. Some have legs of some sort others don’t. Phil and I call them floaters and I bet they did.
http://oneflyspictureplace.blogspot.com/2010/06/mcconkie-ranch-vernal-utah.html
I wish something would land somewhere soon.