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Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress
huffingtonpost.com ^ | 22 May 2014 | Dominique Mosbergen

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gibusmoremoney; lobbying4aliens; obamafone4scientists; ufo
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To: Veggie Todd
If they come to Earth, they’ll be given a democrat voter registration, EBT card, and an obama phone.

Hey! At least ET will be allowed to phone home!

81 posted on 05/22/2014 12:55:36 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: Las Vegas Dave

I find it difficult to think of a microbe as an alien............


82 posted on 05/22/2014 12:56:20 PM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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To: All

Totally different requirements for life could also be a reason why far superior intelligent life forms have not visited earth.


83 posted on 05/22/2014 12:56:50 PM PDT by Boonie
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To: camle
Sorry but it is not Potential. We're already slaves.
84 posted on 05/22/2014 12:56:59 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Unicorns are out there too..


85 posted on 05/22/2014 12:57:10 PM PDT by GOPJ (If dems will "death panel" our vets they'll damn sure death panel the rest of us...)
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To: a fool in paradise
AND THEY ARE RAISING THE TEMPERATURE OF EARTH’S CLIMATE!!!

We are the frogs in the pot!!!

86 posted on 05/22/2014 12:57:21 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: Las Vegas Dave

What a freakin’ charade! These guys are merely trying to continue their gravy train while ignoring the evidence already found on Earth’s Moon, Mars, a Moon of Mars, the Moons of Saturn, etc. NASA has controlled the data allowed out to the public and these mooches know they can count on the great lie to continue so they should get funding for their aiding and abetting the lie. Sickening crap ...


87 posted on 05/22/2014 12:57:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: C210N

Or Undocumented Star Voyagers.


88 posted on 05/22/2014 12:58:55 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Steely Tom

Longer, I think. And nothing to show for it but background noise.


89 posted on 05/22/2014 12:59:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: lowbridge

It’s a cookbook!!!


90 posted on 05/22/2014 12:59:56 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Las Vegas Dave; All
"Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress"

I've seen similiar arguments somewhere before. Now I remember ...

Aliens Are Global Warming Is Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Earmark-Seeking Global Warming Alarmists Tell Congress

91 posted on 05/22/2014 1:00:11 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: spankalib

>Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

And he likely made the Aliens we have not yet met.


92 posted on 05/22/2014 1:02:19 PM PDT by soycd
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To: varon
I find it difficult to think of a microbe as an alien............

That's how they start out. A billion years later though...

93 posted on 05/22/2014 1:05:31 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Does this mean that if you’re a SETI scientist, it’s just fine to believe in invisible sky fairies you’ve never found evidence of? Just asking.


94 posted on 05/22/2014 1:07:16 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Mathematically it’s gotta happen. The only real question is how FAR out there? Could be a very very long way.


95 posted on 05/22/2014 1:08:06 PM PDT by discostu (Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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To: Las Vegas Dave
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

Radio telescopes are WWII technology. Let's see quantum telescopes. Send half the entangled particles out to space, keep the other half and amplify their signals.

96 posted on 05/22/2014 1:10:40 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Las Vegas Dave

It made more sense the first time I read the title. I changed the “Out There” to an “In Here:”

“Aliens Are Almost Definitely In Here, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress”


97 posted on 05/22/2014 1:12:26 PM PDT by rightsmart
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To: soycd

The same source gives us several scenes which bespeak other spacetime realms no further away from us than the length of your arm. But we do not sense them. Why? Now there’s a question these self-proclaimed brilliant scientists should be researching.


98 posted on 05/22/2014 1:14:17 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: soycd

That is essentially the point of putting all those together -
there ARE “inhabited” worlds.


99 posted on 05/22/2014 1:14:43 PM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: Captain Rhino

Problem with the Fermi Paradox is it never really grasps just how big things are even at a “practical” pace of interstellar travel it’s a long haul. Not to mention that it completely ignores the fact that as of yet we have no idea how long it takes to get from beginning to have science to a practical pace of interstellar travel if such a thing is even possible.


100 posted on 05/22/2014 1:15:55 PM PDT by discostu (Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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