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Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040

 
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
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So project blue beam will be perfected by then also. lol
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By then the new system of alien to human enslavement would be fully in effect.
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
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Nasa will be closed down in all but name in 10 years and in 20 years astronomers will be back to giving astrology readings to keep their astronomy hobby going
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If you want to prove alien life exists just assume anal probe position.
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If you want to prove alien life exists just assume anal probe position.
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Dont mix alien life with anal life lol
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He is so outdated! He hasn't heard of Illegal Aliens from Outer Mexico?
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"By 2040"? cruisecruise Nope. 2014 AD.
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2040? not bad

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You are an intelligent life form produced by Aliens.
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We are space creatures. Do we need any more proof than that?
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Re: Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040
No. The reality is, alien life could be CREATED by 2040. Supercomputers.
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Predictive programming...
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


Hi neighbor. What is your personal opinion about our contact with aliens? Seeing that this website relayed tons of 'evidence' about aliens being real and them being here already for a very long time.
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No. The reality is, alien life could be CREATED by 2040. Supercomputers.
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


This is so much BS.

"Could be found" as in we haven't found any yet.

bsflag

Let's ignore the many many eye witnesses, that saw and encountered the big winged reptilians.
Lets ignore the menstruating females and blood-busses chased by the flying reptilians.
Lets ignore the coverups with men in black, and the accompanied ufo observations.
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Re: Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040
By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


Hi neighbor. What is your personal opinion about our contact with aliens? Seeing that this website relayed tons of 'evidence' about aliens being real and them being here already for a very long time.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3481079


My opinion? People fail to realize how big the universe is.
Our milkyway is 100,000 lightyears across. If any alien race could travel with 100 times the speed of light, it will still take them about 100 years to get here. One way.
Lets put aside the risks of traveling at such high speed.
Any tiny particle would blow your spacecraft up at this speed when hitting. Lets assume shields.

If we consider they are coming from a different Galaxy, times get exponentially longer.
If we assume the aliens come from the next bigger galaxy, Andromeda, they will need 25,000 years to get here. At 100 times the speed of light. One way.

Plus what would they probably want here? I mean if all the odds don't matter, there should be much more interesting places within the radius we discussed above.

So, long story short: Alien life may exists somewhere, but we will probably never find out. Unless we invent some technique to bend time and space.

Last Edited by Face Palmer on 02/11/2014 06:21 AM
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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Why can't we ever see that WE are the so-called Alien life forms?


Do we not exist...on a planet...in space???
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Why can't we ever see that WE are the so-called Alien life forms?


Do we not exist...on a planet...in space???
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Alien usually is used as a synonym for extraterrestrial. Which we can't be by definition.
[link to dictionary.reference.com]
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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By 2040 there will be nothing left to find.
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Why can't we ever see that WE are the so-called Alien life forms?


Do we not exist...on a planet...in space???
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Alien usually is used as a synonym for extraterrestrial. Which we can't be by definition.
[link to dictionary.reference.com]
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uck definition, look at us!!! We're REAL we are the real deal right here.
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Why dya think they observe us and we are watched so closely 24 hours a day?

It is because each one of us is a unique space phenomenon.
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Why can't we ever see that WE are the so-called Alien life forms?


Do we not exist...on a planet...in space???
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Alien usually is used as a synonym for extraterrestrial. Which we can't be by definition.
[link to dictionary.reference.com]
 Quoting: Face Palmer


uck definition, look at us!!! We're REAL we are the real deal right here.
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You are stupid. Its about life on other planets. If you can't wrap your brain around this GTFO.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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Why can't we ever see that WE are the so-called Alien life forms?


Do we not exist...on a planet...in space???
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The most intelligent answer yet!!!!
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


Hi neighbor. What is your personal opinion about our contact with aliens? Seeing that this website relayed tons of 'evidence' about aliens being real and them being here already for a very long time.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3481079


My opinion? People fail to realize how big the universe is.
Our milkyway is 100,000 lightyears across. If any alien race could travel with 100 times the speed of light, it will still take them about 100 years to get here. One way.
Lets put aside the risks of traveling at such high speed.
Any tiny particle would blow your spacecraft up at this speed when hitting. Lets assume shields.



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Don't forget there is no air in space to cause the friction that would destroy such a craft.
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


Hi neighbor. What is your personal opinion about our contact with aliens? Seeing that this website relayed tons of 'evidence' about aliens being real and them being here already for a very long time.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3481079


My opinion? People fail to realize how big the universe is.
Our milkyway is 100,000 lightyears across. If any alien race could travel with 100 times the speed of light, it will still take them about 100 years to get here. One way.
Lets put aside the risks of traveling at such high speed.
Any tiny particle would blow your spacecraft up at this speed when hitting. Lets assume shields.



 Quoting: Face Palmer


Don't forget there is no air in space to cause the friction that would destroy such a craft.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22896601


WTF?! I'm not talking about air or friction. Any object of the smallest size (think little comets for the narrow minded or sunstorms) would literally blow right through your ship.

Last Edited by Face Palmer on 02/11/2014 06:54 AM
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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Each individual person is actually THERE OWN UNIVERSE . And each person inside your universe is really a representation of yourself . This is going on for everyone meaning THERE IS NO ONE EARTH. THERE IS ONLY THE AGREEMENT of a illusion of ONE EARTH. So when you say ETS your really looking for yourself. And when you do find ETS inside your parallel universe THEY WILL HAVE KNOWN that YOU are just AN EXTENSION OF Them ! its a funky situation but we gotta except the ACTUALITY of EXISTENCE mhmm
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By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."

[link to www.space.com]

Rumors have it, intelligent life on earth will discovered shortly after.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


Hi neighbor. What is your personal opinion about our contact with aliens? Seeing that this website relayed tons of 'evidence' about aliens being real and them being here already for a very long time.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3481079


My opinion? People fail to realize how big the universe is.
Our milkyway is 100,000 lightyears across. If any alien race could travel with 100 times the speed of light, it will still take them about 100 years to get here. One way.
Lets put aside the risks of traveling at such high speed.
Any tiny particle would blow your spacecraft up at this speed when hitting. Lets assume shields.

If we consider they are coming from a different Galaxy, times get exponentially longer.
If we assume the aliens come from the next bigger galaxy, Andromeda, they will need 25,000 years to get here. At 100 times the speed of light. One way.

Plus what would they probably want here? I mean if all the odds don't matter, there should be much more interesting places within the radius we discussed above.

So, long story short: Alien life may exists somewhere, but we will probably never find out. Unless we invent some technique to bend time and space.
 Quoting: Face Palmer


Thanks for the post, FP. Just the galaxy is a big place, granted, but Shostak is banking on a number (about a million) as being an amount of scanned planets/systems that would yield signs of intelligent life.

The number is no more than a guess with nothing to back it up. Then - he is assuming that the intelligent aliens will have devised some form of EM comms... even that EM comms is indicative of intelligence. This is anthropocentric and doesn't allow for other types of intelligent development which might not use EM comms at all.

Pretty meaningless in the end, but I guess you've got to start somewhere.
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Christ I'll be like 85 years old then or dead so not much good for me then is it??
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