ALIENS ARE COMING: Chief NASA boffin in shock warning

Who are the aliens anyway?

So when they come, will it be two guys with a flag or a fleet of gunships with lasers ?

Oh, WE are the aliens that are coming? Two guys with a flag, then. And a scoop.

"I'm a field geologist. I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils,"

Being a field geologist trained on Earth is likely to go with an expectation of finding evidence of life.

May I bethe first

To welcome our Ganymede and Europa dwelling new overlords.

D

The more the public discover about UFO sightings and all the other alien-related stories, the less cover ups will be effective.

This is just a precursor to the announcement that we knew all along.

Nerve centre for

Asylum

Seeking

Aliens.

So, I might as well stop donating all those spare CPU cycles to SETIathome then.

definitive evidence of something, and contact with it, are not the same thing.

Just saying.

Other than that, best of luck to them.

I personally believe that if there is anything out there (which i'm pretty sure there must be) then it wont be too long before we find it, even if we never actually make any kind of 'contact' with it due to the inconvenient distances involved.

"Fingers crossed they’re the Spielberg ones"

Hopefully the sub-title is referring to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T.", not "War of the Worlds".

He is a she... (somewhat like the spoiler alert for The Crying Game..)

All that we really know about aliens

is that, yes, they exist and they count on a base of 187.5. Could that possibly be the number of digits they have?

Ask pre-columbian south-American natives

or what's left of them how it is when aliens start coming in.

Yet another misleading headline from the vulture

Aliens are NOT COMING.

We may see signs of them, but they are NOT COMING.

Jeez, get a life vultures.

I take it that no one from NASA been on the NYC subway or London Underground recently?

RE. Re. Yet another misleading headline from the vulture

It could be that they are waiting for us to reach some critical level of advancement such as harnessing fusion or achieving stable superconductivity at room temperature to turn up, because by this point hopefully we will have abolished nuclear weapons and achieved world peace by then.

It is also possible as a certain Mr Rodenberry suggests that going FTL generates some detectable signal easily distinguishable from astronomical phenomena which alerts nearby civilizations that something interesting just occured.

Could also explain FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts), perhaps the energy needed to go that fast shows up as a well defined radio wave burst rather than light or radiation?

fund nasa fund

'We know where to [get funding]. We know how to [get funding]' = tell them the wee green man is just around the corner and we'll be rich as spielberg .

In the interests of humanity rather than ET money would be better spent on proper training for the police.

How Long, Lord, How Long

Epsilon Eridani (BD−09°697), located in the constellation Eridanus, is 10.52 light-years from Earth and the closest star known to have planets orbiting around it.

Were there humanoid inhabitants of the Goldilocks planet orbiting EE then if they were, say, 100 years ahead of us in terms of evolution/development they could be here, finger in the air, next week having set out at 10% of light speed (107,925,285 kilometres per hour) 100 years ago.

I expect that the only life we will ever find are microbes in our own solar system... dormant microbes at that. Mathematicians are increasingly warning that the number of variables (upwards of 200 at this point) that must be absolutely spot on for life to exist on earth are not likely (as in "virtually impossible") to exist anywhere else. Even if there are a billions planets in the "habitable zone". The odds are so against it happening on earth that it is becoming more likely that we are simply a computer simulation in someone else's universe, or that we live in a created world.

One example of this came out a few weeks ago... that dual gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are EXTREMELY far out and permitted relative peace-from-bombardment for the inner four planets (and still do). (see March 23 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ) This is just one MORE variable that allowed life on earth... and there are now hundreds of variables. And all of those variables simply go to set up conditions for life... the actual development of life poses a whole new set of fantastic against-the-odds variables that must be overcome.

Its possible that microbes get passed around like the common cold in the solar system. That is not what I consider "alien life". Further, lets assume that the earth "blew up" and sent shards off into space at the highest speed of a comet.. about a million miles an hour. It would still take about a million years to get to the closest uninhabitable planet. A piece actually getting to another planet, with microbes intact, surviving reentry and seeding another planet is probably about as likely as a gamma ray burst from a far-flung star.

The more we know, the more we know that it is less and less and less likely that their is other life in the universe. Earth is an anomaly, and the mathematics involved are slowing proving that.