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Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress
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| 22 May 2014
| Dominique Mosbergen
Posted on 05/22/2014 11:55:42 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
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To: Las Vegas Dave
Shouldn’t SETI refer to them, not as Aliens, but as undocumented travelors?
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:56:42 AM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Look at the DEM leadership in CONgre$$.. They been here for years.
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:56:53 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Is congress looking for more aliens to give benefits to?
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:57:12 AM PDT
by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
maybe there ARE out there, but the real question is do we really want them to know that WE are HERE? a whole planet of potential slaves/food ripe for the taking?
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:58:06 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Dr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:58:08 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; A knight without armor; albertp; aragorn; areafiftyone; aruanan; ...
Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (as a FYI).
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:58:19 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Dave
(The democRATic party preys on the ignorant..!)
To: C210N
“Undocumented Astronauts of Extra-Solar Origin-Americans”
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:59:05 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Las Vegas Dave
Haven’t we been looking for radio signals from alien civilizations for something like forty years?
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posted on
05/22/2014 11:59:25 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: Las Vegas Dave
That’s probably what they’re saying too.
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:01:47 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Las Vegas Dave
Astronomers have NO DATA to support this assertion.
Its all statistical guess work, based upon their “faith” in evolution.
“If we cooked up from the soup here, then with all of the trillions of planetary opportunities out there, somebody’s probably bubbled up somewhere’s else!”
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:01:49 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, and Obama is an anchor baby.
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:02:33 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
I am sure there are space aliens out there but what good are they? Unless they did something useful like lowered the price of gas or cleaned up Fukushima or hurled all of Washington, D.C., the District of Criminals, into another dimension these space aliens can go jump in a lake.
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:03:33 PM PDT
by
Count of Monte Fisto
(The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There
If so, why haven't any of them visited here or at least had the courtesy to send an email?
None are as "advanced" as humans? That would mean we're the smartest ones in the universe.
Scary, indeed.
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:03:40 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Seth Shostak?
He sounds like an alien life form............
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:03:45 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Las Vegas Dave
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.The aliens obviously have sharp agents.
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:03:59 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
the possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is "close to 100 percent."Microbial life is the hard part. Once there's DNA, the sky's the limit.
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:04:05 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: oh8eleven
Someone had to be first. It might as well be us......................
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posted on
05/22/2014 12:04:43 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Las Vegas Dave
I’m trying to remember the scale given in “A Short History of Nearly Everything.” If the Earth were the size of a pea then Pluto would be the size of a one-celled bacterium and would be a mile distant. The universe is big. Bigger than Obama’s ego.
If you disallow magical means of transport as envisioned in Star Trek the chance that we would ever meet an alien is vanishingly small. The odds would make winning the Florida lottery seem to be a virtual given for everybody who buys a ticket.
I have zero doubt there are other intelligences out there. But even if they froze themselves and launched towards us billions of years ago, by the time they got here their civilization would be long dead.
Species on Earth live an average of only 10 million years.
Oh, and why would they come here? Even if our radio signals can be understood at the colossal distances we’re talking about, they haven’t yet gotten to a suitable candidate star.
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