Posted on 05/22/2014 11:55:42 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Aliens almost definitely exist.
At least, that's what two astronomers told Congress this week, as they appealed for continued funding to research life beyond Earth.
According to ABC News, Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday that the possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is "close to 100 percent."
"In the last 50 years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy," said Werthimer in his written testimony, adding: "The possibility that life has arisen elsewhere, and perhaps evolved intelligence, is plausible and warrants scientific inquiry."
Werthimer's colleague Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, also told Congress that he believes our chances of finding extraterrestrial life are high.
“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.
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Shouldn’t SETI refer to them, not as Aliens, but as undocumented travelors?
Look at the DEM leadership in CONgre$$.. They been here for years.
Is congress looking for more aliens to give benefits to?
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?
Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (as a FYI).
“Undocumented Astronauts of Extra-Solar Origin-Americans”
Haven’t we been looking for radio signals from alien civilizations for something like forty years?
That’s probably what they’re saying too.
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!”
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.
Seth Shostak?
He sounds like an alien life form............
The aliens obviously have sharp agents.
Microbial life is the hard part. Once there's DNA, the sky's the limit.
Someone had to be first. It might as well be us......................
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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