Extra Terrestrials
The FIFA World Cup bid announcement won’t be the only huge story tonight. In America, at 4am eastern Australian time, NASA appears certain to announce it has found signs of life on a moon of Saturn.
No doubt it’ll just be boring microbes or, you know, some kind of shapeless Lara Bingle monster. But hey, life’s life. Well done, NASA. Thank you in advance, as they never, ever say in the classics.
Only one question now remains. Is there any evidence of life in NASA itself? Let’s examine the evidence…
Are we alone? Does it matter?
I’ve long come to terms with the idea that there is probably no God, but I’m optimistic there’s something else out there. It’s SETI’s 50th anniversary this year – that’s the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
SETI is both a concept – the search – and an institute dedicated to finding the answer. There is plenty of funding, links with NASA, serious science. It employs 150 professionals. There’s even an Australian SETI centre.
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“In the same way we haven sent rockets to take pictures of other planets i think voyager is out past pluto, so in 200 years it eneters another species planet area” Voyager path will reach within several light years of the closest star near its path in about 30,000 years… Read more »
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