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.
But we need money, that's a certainty.
Because, since evolution happened here, it MUST have happened elsewhere as well... right?
You can bet that if we find intelligent aliens they won’t have ObamaCare on their planet.
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?”
So scientists, the bulk of which are atheists, believe that this incredible ‘accident’ called ‘life’ has occurred elsewhere in the universe? Of course, the anti-ID crowd here will jump on me with their defense of this illogical scientific conclusion in 3 ,2 ,1....
When SETI went from only passive listening to active beaming of tight radio signals a bunch of people involved quit the various programs/boards. Apparently it was somewhat of an arbitrary decision that many disagreed with.
http://www.davidbrin.com/shouldsetitransmit.html
Freegards
Like illegal ones? But hey they can run a leaf blower.
It will take them that long to quit voting Democrat, eh?
Exactly. The real story out of this article is how deeply in bed publications like Space.com are with these government space agencies. If the spending is turned off, they have nothing to report. So we get silly articles like this about how we are going to find intelligent life in space by 2040. How do they know? Do they have a crystal ball?
And if they don’t find evidence, they will fabricate some.
Let’s not be so eager to let them be aware of our presence. They could take this pretty planet for their own and stock it with delicious tribbles.
I’m sure the Caribe Indians were happy as clams when they got a load of beads from Columbus for those useless yellow rocks. (Please don’t try to correct the obviously wrong history. It was to make a point)
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?
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!!!
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.
If they exist and are at all intelligent, they won’t let our moronic, self destructive species find them.