Posted on 05/22/2014 11:55:42 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Aliens almost definitely exist.
At least, that's what two astronomers told Congress this week, as they appealed for continued funding to research life beyond Earth.
According to ABC News, Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday that the possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is "close to 100 percent."
"In the last 50 years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy," said Werthimer in his written testimony, adding: "The possibility that life has arisen elsewhere, and perhaps evolved intelligence, is plausible and warrants scientific inquiry."
Werthimer's colleague Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, also told Congress that he believes our chances of finding extraterrestrial life are high.
“The chances of finding it I think are good and if that happens it will happen in the next 20 years depending on the financing,” Shostak told the committee.
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Cuz this time, we weely, weely want there to be aliens. So pweez, pwetty pweez, give us more money.
I say go for it. There are few signs of “evolved intelligence” to be found on planet earth any more.
If they come to Earth, they’ll be given a democrat voter registration, EBT card, and an obama phone.
Additional web link reported:
Astronomers in America have told the US congress that the search for extraterrestrial life is “plausible and warrants scientific inquiry”.
Dan Werthimer and Seth Shostak of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley presented evidence to the House Committee to secure further funding to find alien life in outer space.
“In the last fifty years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy,” said Werthimer in his written testimony.
“There may even be primitive extraterrestrial life in our own solar system, perhaps on a moon of Jupiter or Saturn. Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, is thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy surface, perhaps a good environment for life as we know it.”
The pair said that although “no evidence exists for the presence of life outside of the Earth”, the sheer abundance of planets – “roughly one trillion in our Milky Way galaxy; three times more planets than stars” – suggests that the universe is “teeming with primitive life.”
The SETI institute (short for “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”) does not actively look for primitive life, but instead uses radio and optical telescopes “to search for evidence of advanced civilizations and their technology on distant extrasolar planets”.
Werthimer and Shostak pointed out that Earth itself has been beaming out radio and television signals into the cosmos for the last 85 years (nearby stars are already receiving episodes of The Simpsons) but that this time span is only an instant compared to the four billion year history of life on the planet.
“We are just now developing the tools and technologies that might detect distant civilizations,” said the pair. “There could be radio or laser signals from extraterrestrial civilizations reaching our planet right now, but we would most likely not detect these signals with these early SETI projects.”
Since its inception, SETI has organized a number of programs designed to sift through potential emissions from extraterrestrial sources, including the SETI@home program that uses downtime on ordinary peoples’ computers to analyse incoming data from the likes of the Arecibo telescope – the largest radio telescope in the world.
However, Werthimer said that the US was in danger of being overtaken by other nations, with China currently developing a radio telescope 500 metres in diameter (larger the Arecibo) that, alongside the internationally-funded Square Kilometre Array, “may soon become the world’s preeminent radio SETI observatories.”
Meaning...
it’s worth 30 or 40 trillion spent on projects related to them over the coming decades.
“while we think alien life may be possible, and it may be out there, the one thing we know for certain is that we want to keep getting paid.”
wish this truth would be uttered by someone with balls to admit it.
Funny,I always thought that Obama was Satan’s anchor baby.
Sounds like they dusted off an old global warming computer model. :)
Exactly!!
Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein…
Hbr 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds
Hbr 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.
yeppers on assistance in Cali getting a drivers license.
Belief without evidence is called faith.
WRONG! They're here.
I have some good news and bad news.
The bad news is that the Martians have landed.
The good news is that the Martians are eating all the (fill in hate group) and urinating gasoline!
A thread about aliens with 37 posts and no pictures of Dennis Kucinich? FReepers are slipping! :-)
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