Posted on 07/15/2014 9:28:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Cambridge, Mass. (CBS CONNECTICUT) – NASA predicts that 100 million worlds in our own Milky Way galaxy may host alien life, and space program scientists estimate that humans will be able to find life within two decades.
Speaking at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Monday, the space agency outlined a plan to search for alien life using current telescope technology, and announced the launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite in 2017. The NASA administrators and scientists estimate that humans will be able to locate alien life within the next 20 years.
“Just imagine the moment, when we find potential signatures of life. Imagine the moment when the world wakes up and the human race realizes that its long loneliness in time and space may be over — the possibility we’re no longer alone in the universe,” said Matt Mountain, director and Webb telescope scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018.
“What we didn’t know five years ago is that perhaps 10 to 20 per cent of stars around us have Earth-size planets in the habitable zone,” added Mountain. “It’s within our grasp to pull off a discovery that will change the world forever.”
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“I can’t help thinking that somewhere in the universe, there has to be something better than man. Has to be.”
George Taylor - The Planet of the Apes.
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/George_Taylor
It's a diversion to keep us from remembering their muslim outreach directive.
How is that Mooselimb outreach going?
I know that there are aliens..... Have you ever been to Walmart after midnight?SCARY!
I know I was abducted and probed by aliens.... I woke up with my underwear on backwards...
I'm sure with all the global warming, rising sea levels, and general Obama induced hysteria, any alien species will avoid this galactic off ramp called Earth.
This is an obsession to “prove” that our development here was not the result of a special creative act by our Creator.
It could be that life is fairly common like basic organic compounds, in which case we will probably find some sort of microbial life on Europa or somewhere else in the solar system.
On the other hand, it could be that it takes a trillion different circumstances all happening in one place for life to evolve, in which case we could be the only life in the galaxy. Earth could be the living embodiment of the infinite monkey theorem.
I wonder if they have SOYLENT GREEN on that planet. After all, SOYLENT GREEN is people.
“Just imagine the moment, when we find potential signatures of life.”
“Potential signatures of life” is not proof of life.
Amen and Amen!
“What we didn’t know five years ago is that perhaps 10 to 20 per cent of stars around us have Earth-size planets in the habitable zone,” added Mountain.
How many of those have a planet like Jupiter in the solar system to block most space debris headed our way? How many have a moon like ours, to catch debris that miss Jupiter, and to create tides and stabilize the planet’s rotation? How many have water? How many have a molten core with plate tectonics? How many have a fairly circular orbit? How many of these planets have a sun that is a yellow dwarf?
There is a long list of factors that makes Earth a unique place. Are there other planets with life? The numbers say there must be, but I wonder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Fermi paradox From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence. For the type of estimation problem, see Fermi problem.
The Fermi paradox (or Fermi's 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.[1] The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart, are: The Sun is a typical star, and relatively young. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older.
Almost surely, some of these stars will have Earth-like planets.[2] Assuming the Earth is typical, some of these planets may develop intelligent life. Some of these civilizations may develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now (such as the 100 Year Starship).
Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned 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 (see Empirical resolution attempts) 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?"[3]
In other words, we are alone in this galaxy, at least.
If the evolutionary assumptions were true, the Romulans and the Klingons would have colonized us a long time ago.
If they can rid the world of God, they rid it of all absolutes so that everything is permissible.
Science is now a bunch of Al Gore theorists.
They’ve never been able to make life from nothing.
Perhaps that’s because only God can make life.
Bingo
The oceans will rise so far, they’ll de-orbit that telescope these boneheads are talking about.
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