- Yuri milner, a Russian billionaire you’ve never heard of, just allotted $100 million of his personal fortune towards finding ET. Amazing, right? Surprisingly, slightly less so. Humankind is obsessed with aliens. In fact, on a list of things we are morbidly interested in, aliens probably rank in the top ten. You’d think recurring theme of anal probes and genocidal invasions would put us off aliens a little bit, but it hasn’t. we are looking for them more than ever before.
- BEEN THERE TRIED THAT
NASA”S pioneer probes were affixed with plaques bearing symbol as well as a naked couple waving. In 1999, Russian scientists sent their own messages into space, and he imagined that the aliens they reached probably don’t have the best impression of US. In 2008, NASA decide to communicate with irony by broadcasting the beatless across the universe just in case some ufo needed driving music.
- AN UNHEALTHY OBSESSION
The top brass at NASA , in fact expects us to discover extra terrestrial life by 2025. Even Stephen hawking who’s part of milner’s breakthrough listen projects, said at the launch that “ in an infinite universe there must be other occurrences of life.” For him to say that, though, is a brave move – coming from a man who actually voiced concerns that an alien visit might play out more like independence day than paul. Still. To worry about bad tempered aliens is probably getting a bit ahead of ourselves. We need to find them first. That’s where the SETI institute comes in. and they’ve been at it for a while. They’ve been using radio telescopes since 1960s in the hopes of hearing a broadcast from an alien race. And if aliens do exist, they don’t seem to want to talk to us. Because the most we’ve ever received a 72 second radio signal (called the wow| signal) from a part of space with no stars and planets.
- ALL THIS FOR NOTHING?
In all this hysteria, though, we need to pause and ask ourselves a very important question- what if there is life out there, but it isn’t intelligent? As of now that actually the most realistic possibility. The closest we’ve come to anything resembling alien life is far from anything we’ve conjured up on screen. It is rather dramatically named ‘dragon particle’ which was discovered 27 kilometers above the earth’s surface in the stratosphere. It’s carbon based organism that’s just 10 microns in size. Whether its really alien though, because while it’s almost impossible for an organism that tiny to be lifted so far from the earth’s surface.
- THE THOUGHT PROCESS
A british survey showed more people believed in aliens than they did in god.
NASA says we are on track to establish contacts by 2025.
- THE OBSESSION
The organization SETI- search for extra terrestrial intelligence – wants to broadcast the entire internet to the universe.
- THE TRUTH
But the only alien life discovered so far have been minuscule organisms that we are not even sure aren’t terrestrial.
Has all this research and shouting into space been for nothing?
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