Posted on 02/10/2014 6:28:41 AM PST by 12th_Monkey
The first detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life will likely come within the next quarter-century, a prominent alien hunter predicts.
By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium here at Stanford University
"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."
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While I'm not sure if ET's exist or not, if you play the odds in and infinite universe, then logically there should be. IF we one day do find signs, will we believe them?
"Talk amongst yourselves,"
Meaning we have already found unintelligent aliens.
Right here on Earth.
/johnny
I’m not interested in intelligent aliens. They would just be an obstacle or a threat.
I’m more interested in habitable planets with life we can eat.
Just what we need more aliens. :-)
But we need money, that's a certainty.
Because, since evolution happened here, it MUST have happened elsewhere as well... right?
I’m sure if aliens have listened to our TV and Radio broadcasts over the last 50 years or so, the’ve probably come to the conclusion no intelligent life exists on Earth.
A "Threat" is what I'm worried about. Especially from those *more* intelligent.
You don't try to communicate with the ants in your driveway. Or, frankly, worry about them, unless they try to come into the house. Then they become an issue, and get exterminated.
Should be Bill Clinton backdoors alien
You can bet that if we find intelligent aliens they won’t have ObamaCare on their planet.
Yes. A more fine tuned search can now happen
Ah.. he slightly altered his name so we wouldn’t know he was a Sleestak from Land of the Lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity’s lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations. The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart, are:
The Sun is a young star. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older;
some of these stars probably have Earth-like planets which, if the Earth is typical, may develop intelligent life;
presumably, some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now;
at any practical pace of interstellar travel, the galaxy can be completely colonized in a few tens of millions of years.
According to this line of thinking, the Earth should already have been colonized, or at least visited. But no convincing evidence of this exists. Furthermore, no confirmed signs of intelligence elsewhere have been spotted, either in our galaxy or in the more than 80 billion other galaxies of the observable universe. Hence Fermi’s question,
“Where is everybody?”
Yep. WHile it it’s true, it was kind of a bonehead statement to make. Since “funding” gave us the lie of global warming, will it give us aliens too???
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