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Alien encounters 'within twenty years'
guardian.uk ^ | 6/27/11 | Reuters

Posted on 06/27/2011 9:04:38 PM PDT by Nachum

Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilisations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer said on Monday.

"The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms ... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years," said Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, according to the Interfax news agency.

Speaking at an international forum dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, Finkelstein said 10% of the known planets circling suns in the galaxy resemble Earth.

If water can be found there, then so can life, he said, adding that aliens would most likely resemble humans with two arms, two legs and a head.

"They may have different colour skin, but even we have that," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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To: Nachum

More SETI type religious crap. Wishful thinking at best; delusion at worst.


41 posted on 06/27/2011 10:40:54 PM PDT by GunRunner (10 Years of FReeping...)
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To: dragnet2

than some people I have run into ... WHAT?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


42 posted on 06/27/2011 10:42:27 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: skeptoid

That is indeed a classic! LOL


43 posted on 06/27/2011 10:43:55 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: sonic109

But I must also add, there is a slim chance life outside earth has already been detected or discovered which hasn’t been revealed to the general population. I don’t know. But if this were the case, there would be a whole host of reasons why entities/governments would “hold off” revealing that information.


44 posted on 06/27/2011 10:46:19 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
I’m not that eager to meet ET. Its not like we don’t have enough problems already. What if ET wants to eat us?

IT'S A COOK BOOK!!!!

45 posted on 06/27/2011 10:46:51 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Captain Beyond

THX THX


46 posted on 06/27/2011 10:47:05 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Nachum

What happens when the Aliens make contact and then promptly tell us about all the Alien wars going on in the universe. What will the Left do? How will they continue to chase their precious utopian schemes when it is revealed that all of the negative human attributes are not uniquely human at all, but rather that human beings simply reflect the universal truths inherent in all life forms?

Much of their appeal to the ignorant rests upon the fact that there is no other frame of reference for us to judge ourselves by other than our own. Think about it.

What if a peaceful Alien race made contact with us tomorrow. They had superior technology and could effortlessly provide ongoing free energy, food, housing, medical care etc. to everyone on the planet. What if the Utopia they incessantly posit could exist “but if only”... actually materialized before the end of next week?

What would they do? Bereft of purpose and the possibility for personal glorification what would they do?

How long do you think it would take before they started complaining about the “oppressive” Alien created utopia. How long would it be before they began to lead the revolution to deliver us from the invisible chains of slavery that came along with the actual realization of a real utopia. Do you think they could, for even a second, just sit back while the entire human race went off on their own, in a multitude of different directions, no longer needing them in any way whatsoever?


47 posted on 06/27/2011 10:47:26 PM PDT by Al Gore Vidal
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To: garjog
"The fact that they haven’t is evidence that they don’t exist"

Good thinking.


48 posted on 06/27/2011 10:48:15 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: Al Gore Vidal

What if they are already here and just look at us like cattle?


49 posted on 06/27/2011 10:48:31 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: dragnet2

guys- according to Ted Turner and ALGORE, the aliens were killed off by global warming yrs ago


50 posted on 06/27/2011 10:48:56 PM PDT by mriguy67
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To: Nachum

And would we be just a lower form of life to them? <<

Depends on who discovers the other first.....


51 posted on 06/27/2011 10:56:17 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Nachum
What if they are already here and just look at us like cattle?

In that case, lets hope their mother ships look like tacos, and we eat them first.

52 posted on 06/27/2011 11:00:55 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Al Gore Vidal
What would they do? Bereft of purpose and the possibility for personal glorification what would they do?

And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object--that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano-key!

Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

( I read this quote in Abbie Hoffman's REVOLUTION FO THE HELL OF IT )

53 posted on 06/27/2011 11:09:39 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Nachum
What if they are already here and just look at us like cattle? <<

or maybe just see us as a self producing wine cellar...
I mean...sure they harvest a few early and call it Ripple, Night train or even Tupac..but the aged ones..Now that's what they like...
I can hear em now..Have u tried the Reagan..an excellent choice...Im also looking forward to trying the Castro myself

54 posted on 06/27/2011 11:22:05 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Lazlo in PA
I believe Gillain Anderson was super hot in that series.


55 posted on 06/27/2011 11:24:47 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Nachum

Within 20 years? There’s already been alien encounters. James Carville is but one.


56 posted on 06/28/2011 12:27:59 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Captain Beyond
I believe Gillain Anderson was super hot in that series.

You got that right brother. And she still is.


57 posted on 06/28/2011 12:28:37 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Nachum
gotta bump this early in the morning
this could be Hugh / very entertaining! :)

58 posted on 06/28/2011 12:44:19 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Pharaoh / Imam / BigEars) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. :)
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To: Nachum

I for one welcome our new overlords.


59 posted on 06/28/2011 1:48:34 AM PDT by BigCinBigD ("We hold it in our power, to begin the world anew")
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To: Nachum
Most likely we'll discovery alien life, if there is any, by studying the spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres.

Seeing ExoPlanet Atmospheres From the Ground

60 posted on 06/28/2011 2:05:53 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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