NASA Scientists Say We Will Meet Aliens by 2034
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/14460/20140524/nasa-scientists-say-we-will-meet-aliens-by-2034.htm
Scientists at NASA and also in the massive Keck observatory in Hawaii have decided that it is quite possible that we will find alien life sooner than later. They even have a relative date.
"It is not hyperbolic to suggest that scientists could very well discover extraterrestrial intelligence within two decades' time or less, given resources to conduct the search," Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, said in testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
According to them, we will meet intelligent alien life by 2034. That's even earlier than the first date of contact in the fictional "Star Trek" series, which was April 5, 2063.
Much of the reason why scientists like Shostak are confident that we will meet aliens by 2034 is because of the great advances we are making in technology and space research. Already are there plans for terraforming mars and colonizing the planet with human life. Already are there spacecrafts orbiting the other planets in our solar system. Even a planet identical to Earth that can host life has been found, and hundreds of other prospects.
"Recent analyses of Kepler data suggest that as many as one star in five will have a habitable, Earth-size planet in orbit around it," Shostak told the lawmakers. "This number could be too large by perhaps a factor of two or three, but even so it implies that the Milky Way is home to 10 to 80 billion cousins of Earth."
Although these "Earth cousins" are too far to inhabit yet, we are making fast technology advances to be able to reach there in the future.
The Kepler telescopes have greatly contributed to our relatively new understanding of how many different planets exist in our universe. Nonetheless, they are reaching their limit and new telescopes will be taking their place like the James Webb Space Telescope and huge terrestrial scopes in Hawaii, and Chile that will complement the search.
Very soon, Shostak's prediction may come true. We may meet alien life sooner than later.
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