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Intelligent Aliens Could Be Found by 2040
Space.com ^ | February 10, 2014 | Mike Wall

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: aliens; panspermia; seti; space; xplanets
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To: Georgia Girl 2; 12th_Monkey; ontap; SMARTY

Next we’ll all be required to put up signs on some terrible pictogram language catering to the interplanetary jet set.
“just in case”

Oh wait, that’s the visual picture menu at McD’s.


41 posted on 02/10/2014 6:54:51 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: JoeProBono
They walk among us! ...be very afraid!


42 posted on 02/10/2014 6:55:21 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: dfwgator

gotta switch to another browser, chrome isn’t displaying pictures.


43 posted on 02/10/2014 6:55:53 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

ALIENS?????

Wouldn’t they be referred to as ‘Undocumented Space Travelers’?

Like Sienfeld opined....

A space craft hovering above you while you are walking your dog.
Dog stops to ‘do doo doo’ and you stop and pick it up.

Don’t really have to wonder ‘who is in charge’ now do you?


44 posted on 02/10/2014 6:56:36 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --Every wonder why when they refer to People of Color it doesn't include Asians??)
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To: Vaquero

it’s a 50-50 shot and your analogy is very valid. Twilight Zone’s “to serve man” springs to mind....


45 posted on 02/10/2014 6:57:29 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: Darksheare

HA!


47 posted on 02/10/2014 6:58:05 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: cripplecreek

I am hoping that we discover the cowrovians living on the planet Pondetaur in my lifetime.


48 posted on 02/10/2014 6:58:52 AM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: xrmusn

Kind of like Hitchhikers guide, where the visiting alien thought the predominant life form were cars.


49 posted on 02/10/2014 7:00:01 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: 12th_Monkey
if you play the odds in and infinite universe, then logically there should be

No doubt there is other life forms in the universe......fact is there is not a shred of evidence they have ever visited this planet!!!

50 posted on 02/10/2014 7:00:14 AM PST by ontap
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To: cripplecreek
After all, we really don't have anything that they can't find in abundance closer to home.

WATER?

Looney politicians?

Or perhaps, as described in C.S. Lewis's SciFi Trilogy beginning with Out of the Silent Planet, we have Evil in an abundance not seen in the remainder of the inhabited Universe?

51 posted on 02/10/2014 7:02:04 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: 12th_Monkey

It’s interesting research, I suppose.

But look at our history. We didn’t start broadcasting until the start of the last century.

I’m sure we’ll continue to do so for the forseeable future, but how likely for another century? A lot of what was previously broadcast is now transmitted via the internet, which is mostly wired.

Who knows what other sorts of transmission possibilities may open up - eventually we may no longer generate as much.

But let’s say we continue to do so for another 200 years. That would be 300 years total.

So even if we happened to be looking in the right place, and found a civilization with similar advancement path, what are the chances we’re looking at the right time? And, given how long it takes those signals to reach us, the civilization we happened to catch broadcasting will have advanced thousands of years ahead - possibly dying out in the process.

Then there’s the possibility that intelligent life is out there in droves. How likely is it that they’re all friendly? I suspect most intelligent worlds would stop broadcasting out into the galaxy just to minimize the chance of their being discovered. Maybe being an EMF beacon isn’t the greatest idea in the grand scheme of the galaxy.


52 posted on 02/10/2014 7:03:33 AM PST by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: ontap

When folks think about alien life, the conclusion is always something kind of like us.

If we were to find microbes deep in the soil of Mars or plankton like creatures under the ice of Europa, that is alien life because it’s not from here.

So when I think about the vastness of the universe, I cannot buy into the idea that every planet circling a sun’s habitable zone is a sterile world.


53 posted on 02/10/2014 7:05:45 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: chrisser

I agree with you on all your points. We are looking at a small window where our technology matches ET’s. I’ve also wondered if ET’s have made contact and decided that it’s best to go dark and not let anyone know where they are.

Earth is a noisy place, spewing RF in all directions.


54 posted on 02/10/2014 7:10:10 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

If they exist and are at all intelligent, they won’t let our moronic, self destructive species find them.


55 posted on 02/10/2014 7:10:10 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: cripplecreek

Hope you don't run into this guy..

56 posted on 02/10/2014 7:11:01 AM PST by expatguy (Donate to "An American Expat in SE Asia")
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To: 12th_Monkey

Aliens only seem
intelligent when they have their teleprompters.


57 posted on 02/10/2014 7:11:29 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Above My Pay Grade

ET would probably just put us on a watch list. Hopefully not the easy pick’n watch list....


58 posted on 02/10/2014 7:12:27 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: faithhopecharity

HA!


59 posted on 02/10/2014 7:12:53 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

Who said anything about sterile planets? I believe there are planets pretty much like ours some where out there...they’re just not close enough to be visiting us. Unless one believes that Star Trek was real!!!


60 posted on 02/10/2014 7:14:04 AM PST by ontap
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