Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society
Posted on 02/22/2010 2:05:36 PM PST by JoeProBono
ALIENS could be among us - but we just cannot recognize them, Britain's top astronomer has said. The Sun reported that Lord Martin Rees said the visitors might be in a form beyond human understanding.
Lord Rees, president of the Royal Society academy of science and also astronomer to the Queen, said: "They could be staring us in the face and we just don't recognize them."
The respected professor went on: "The problem is that we're looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.
"I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. "Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality which are beyond the capacity of our brains."
Lord Rees' comments raise the possibility of aliens being here - in the shape of anyone or anything.
He spoke out shortly after hosting the first conference on the possibility of alien life in the Royal Society's 350-year-history.
He also told highbrow Prospect magazine better telescopes meant the chance of finding life on other planets was "greater than ever."
Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society
They are running the government, they are reptilians!! aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh
Why is it that believers in ET life presume that said life is of higher intelligence?
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The Astronomer To The Queen?
I hate to think how much that costs English taxpayers each year.
Lord Martin sure looks like one to me.
Only one type of Alien I am into- Femalien(s).
The government should allow immediate acess to earth for those types.
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Because, relatively speaking, our Sun is fairly young. Also, other civilizations may not have had a 'Dark Ages' like we did; or if they had one it may not have lasted as long as ours did.
Consider, if you knocked just 100 years off the 'Dark Ages'. Our 'Dark Ages' lasted ~300 years. Can you imagine where we would be today, if we were at this level of tecnology back in the early to mid 1700's?
Open the borders to real aliens? Anyone seen District 13??
If the planet Earth is the only body in the heavens gifted with life; God sure did a lot of work for nothing.
“Open the borders to real aliens? Anyone seen District 13??”
No, but I did go to El Paso last year on business.
I knew it. Hillary is an alien snake. Hold that. I like snakes. Hillary is an alien rat.
I think the headline was a typo. They meant Astrologer not Astronomer.
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