With
the numerous discoveries made in the last couple of months, the
possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos is something being
considered not only by space agencies around the world but by numerous
governments as well. Not long ago astronomers gathered in front of
Congress (US) and discuss extraterrestrial life. Citing the sheer size
of the universe, astronomers emphasized that there are trillions of
stars out there in the cosmos and it is very likely that one out of five
stars harbors an Earth-like planet, for life to exist as we know it.
But that doesn’t meant that life elsewhere needs the same conditions as
life on Earth needs in order to survive. Maybe somewhere out there life
needs magma and nitrogen to survive.
“The
number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of
billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the
number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100
billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute.
Is NASA preparing the world for Alien Contact?
IT
is very interesting to learn that NASA decided to team up with the
Library of Congress and gather scientists, historians, philosophers and
theologians from all around the world top discuss how to prepare mankind
for contact with beings not from Earth. The idea that life exists
elsewhere in the universe could be both exciting and dangerous for
society. Imagine waking up one day, turning on the news and hearing that
NASA has just found irrefutable proof of Aliens on another planet and
that they have already made contact. What would that mean for you, your
family, your community, city country and the entire planet? How much
would things change?
Lets not forget the
latest news about potential alien life from NASA. As you are reading
through this article, astronomers from SETI are looking for confirmation
about Alien life near the star where NASA spotted Giant ‘Alien-like’
Megastructures.
Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told The Atlantic: “We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
According to Jason Wright, an astronomer at the Pennsylvania State University: “These structures, or better said mega-structures, could be the product of a highly advanced alien civilization.”
