Posted on 11/13/2006 7:03:45 PM PST by KevinDavis
Intelligent life is likely abundant in the cosmos, and we will find evidence of it soon, according to one of the world's top experts on the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life.
Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., gave a pair of talks in Athens last week about what his organization does to search for alien life, why he believes it is out there, and what might happen when we find it.
SETI is a general acronym for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" that can apply to any group that does such work, and does not exclusively refer to Shostak's institute.
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Theres not much evidence of intelligent life in the USA.
Number of stars discovered so far? Trillions.
Number of stars with planets? Around a hundred or so.
Now that's great cell phone reception!
Imagine the bill????
So far... More will be discovered....
Actually our problems begin when THEY find US... Even were we able to detect signs of intelligence out there we would have no way of commmunicating with them for perhaps hundreds of years, they on the other hand.... We now return to Grover's Mill NJ.
SETI is bunk.
I don't think so. Plantery formation, imo, is rare. Very, very rare. The dynamics of many bodies are so unstable.
Planetary.
How do you know that???
Here's a link to a forming star system: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/25/
The star has two disks. An identified planet is in the smaller, secondary disk.
True, but I'd bet that there is some kind of freakish exoskeleton being covered up my Nancy Pelosi's taut facial skin so E.T. may already be here. Kind of like the bug wearing a human skin suit in "Men In Black".
additional to message 13:
Beta Pictoris accused of harbouring planets ( Dusty ring is a giveaway )
The Register | June 28, 2006 | Lucy Sherriff
Posted on 06/29/2006 2:12:05 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1657585/posts
Look it up yourself.
So?
I said "trillions of stars", okay that was hyperbole. Yet there may be, including estimates of the ones in galaxies we've observed. Yet the count we can now make? Close to a billion or so.
Most modern catalogues are generated by computers, using high-resolution, high-sensitivity telescopes, and as a result describe very large numbers of objects. For example, the Guide Star Catalog II has entries on over 998 million distinct astronomical objects. Objects in these catalogs are typically located with very high resolution, and assign designations to these objects based on their position in the sky.So exactly what is 200/1,000,000,000?(Wikipedia, here)
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