“Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize planets where life could exist. The planet is not habitable but it has the same chemistry that, if found around a rocky planet in the future, could indicate the presence of life.”
If organic molecules are so prevalent where are all the intelligent space-faring aliens ? The lack of evidence for aliens is strong evidence that we are alone, the random evolution of intelligent life is so rare that we are the only ones in the entire galaxy. Note that this is not the same as saying “the random evolution of life is rare”. There probably are bacteria in most solar systems.
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1 Galex // Jan 24, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Aliens landed here in the late 80s, were freaked out by the TV series ALF and have now zoomed off into the cosmos. They will return in 1,000 years, hoping we’ll have forgotten all the secrets of that show by then.
2 Sean // Jan 24, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Great comment. Thanks for the support.
3 Colum Paget // Mar 2, 2010 at 5:17 am
Where are the intelligent space-faring earth people? To any aliens out there, we don’t exist. Voyager is going to be lost forever in the inky black, a message in a bottle drifting eternally through nothingness. How would anyone ever find it?
Will we send anything else? I’m not sure. It’s 2010 already, I’m supposed to have a robot housemaid and be taking holidays on the moon. Instead we have the internet. Big fat hairy deal. The futures we were promised by SF in the past never happened (except maybe the bad ones) and likely they never will.
And, you know, do we really *want* to meet the aliens? Looking at our own history, what has the experience been like of meeting a more advanced civilisation? (And if they manage to come here, or their robotic probes do, then they must be much more advanced, because we can’t get to them right now). If they come here, why have they come here? What have they come for? What do they hope to get?
I have long believed that we should keep the noise down on earth, just in case there are aliens. After all, if they pick up our transmissions they’ll be saying “Look Q-zark, another hopelessly primitive world using radio! Ha ha! And look how blue and bountiful their world is! And what a mess they are making of it! My, we could make better use of it than them. Prepare the invasion fleet!”
Colum
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