Perhaps in twenty or thirty years you will open your computer and it will display a truly wondrous message.
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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We are alone. We are the last planet that has not destroyed itself with global warming yet.
“Potential signatures of life” is not proof of life.
Amazing how scientists who are trained to know the difference between “proof” and a “statistical likelihood” still seem to mess it up when making their case for a pet-project.
Someone has to be ‘first’..............Why not us?....................
In order to prove it, you will have to get there.
Based on the distances involved, that will not happen in our lifetimes. Not twenty years. Not 100 years.
That is why the whole UFO thing is a scam.
If you look at this stuff practically, we simply cannot “get” to where we need to be. Not that we shouldn’t try, but it won’t happen in twenty years.
“If the evolutionary assumptions were true, the Romulans and the Klingons would have colonized us a long time ago.”
Take a good hard look at the mouth-breathers in the Democrat Congressional Causus and then tell me “We haven’t been colonized”!
Perhaps in twenty or thirty years you will open your computer and it will display a truly wondrous message.
I play the Powerball lotto, so clearly I’m willing to entertain long odds. However, the lotto is not my retirement plan.
It could happen, it’s just very, very unlikely.
I chuckle about scientific statistics.
I found I had a benign brain tumor.
They told me at the time it was something like one in five million people when they discovered it.
Recently, I had it checked again. Now it was something like one in three million people.
Why the drop? Because more people are getting MRIs, the only way these things are discovered unless it kills you.
Statistics are funny things.
I become less “special” every day.
Given the immense astronomical distances and the Inverse Square Law for radio transmissions, I doubt that any of our signals would be detectable past our own solar system’s Oort Cloud. Even pulsars are faint and they are in other galaxies.................
The evidence so far indicates that the Universe is extremely hostile to life as we know it. Our own Solar System is mostly devoid of life and here on earth the ratio of biomass to mass is 3 parts in 1 billion.
There are three types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics....................
Ya know, sometimes it’s best to leave some things alone.
Or our money back?
I think we will be opening a can of worms.
That is, if aliens or something similar aren't already here...and some think that "something" is already here.
Dr. John Mack, for one...J. Allen Hynek, for another (both now deceased). Both came to believe whatever that "something" is...it is interdimensional.
By definition, if they're intelligent they won't let us detect them.
Oh, they don’t want all things permissible - they just want to define for themselves what is permissible.
Humanism and its expression in liberalism stems from the first lie - “you will be as gods, knowing [defining] good and evil [for yourselves]”.
The lights aren’t to see where they are going. They are to scare the crap out of people driving down lonely country roads. Didn’t you like to pull pranks when you were a kid?
“This is an obsession to “prove” that our development here was not the result of a special creative act by our Creator.”
Exactly.
Sherman Logan: "Classic example of a "scientific wild ass guess" made without any supporting data at all."
It's worse than that -- it contradicts it's own numbers.
Consider, the Milky Way galaxy is said to have from 100 to 400 billion (with a "b") stars, of which supposedly NASA says:
Well, 10% of 100 billion is 10 billion, not 100 million, and 20% of 400 billion is 80 billion potential earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
Multiply times maybe 100 billion galaxies in the "known universe", and the number of possible Earth-like planets grows beyond comprehension.
Of course, "Earth-like" does not mean any of them have some kind of life, much less "intelligent life".
That's the big unknown.
Until some evidence is found of any life on any other planet, there's no possible way to guess if we are all alone, or just one of millions/billions of others.
So far the "odds" suggest billions of other, but the facts still say we're alone.
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