Posted on 04/08/2015 6:07:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bolstered by a flurry of recent discoveries, NASA scientists believe they could find evidence of alien life in the universe as early 2025.
Much of the excitement has been around the discovery of water in so many unexpected places. Several planets including Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (and their moons) are believed to possess water in their atmosphere and interiors and the five icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn have shown strong evidence of oceans beneath their surfaces.
"I'm going to say we are going to have strong indications of life beyond earth within a decade and I think we are going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," Ellen Stofan, NASA's chief scientist, said at a lecture Tuesday.
"We know where to look. We know how to look," she said. "In most cases, we have the technology and we are on the path to implementing it. So, I think we are on the road."
Jeff Newmark, NASA's interim director of heliophysics, predicted it was a matter of "when, not if" for the discovery of life beyond Earth.
"The pace of our discovery is amazing," he said. "We will be visiting Pluto, the last of the planets that we haven't seen. With Solar Probe Plus, we will be visiting our nearest star in a few years. We're just continuing to discover what is out there."
The optimism is also driven by what scientists are finding in distant galaxies.
Thanks to the planet-hunting Kepler telescope, launched in 2009, scientists have discovered more than 1,000 exoplanets. Among those were eight new planets announced in January, including two that scientists believe are similar to Earth.
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If the government is telling you about something in the near future, they’ve already been doing it for 20 or 30 years.
Dammit!
Is that fruitcake James Hansen back with NASA?
Just look to Californistan to find “aliens”
God created the Earth. There is absolutely no other life in the entire universe. These anti God devils seek to mislead otherwise. AT YOUR EXPENSE. They seek to play in the sky and spin yarns of people on Mars. Nasa should be totally closed . It has found nothing and we are beyond broke as a nation. STOP THIS HORSE $hit!!
“NASA predicts alien life could be found by 2025”
Only if they are talking about the ones sneaking across the boarder. Other than that, NASA has barely been able to find its a$$ with both hands since the moon program. They limped through the shuttle program and are now basically irrelevant.
Maybe maybe not.
Budget time?
Hubris:....believing god ONLY made life in one corner of his creation...and it was you.
But can they find any intelligent life in Washington D.C.?
“NASA scientists believe they could find evidence of alien life in the universe as early 2025.
think we are going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years,”
somethings wrong with the math here...
could it be that there Discovery Modeling Software..was programmed by those Global Climate Catastrophe Guys??
Please link to the verses in the Bible that explain this point. Thanks!
NASA is so retarded.
They completely missed the alien in the White Mosque.
There is a God. He is Great. And there could be other life out there. It would not shake my faith in the least.
You beat me to it.
Yeah, I don't think so..
Somehow this comes to mind ... :-) ...
“In the Year 2525”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesyhQkYrQM
How are they going to find alien life? By peering through telescopes? Probes to nearby planets or moons?
You don’t think there is any intelligent life or other beings in the universe?
“E.T....Phone home...”
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