Oxford scientist suggests alien encounter will occur this century
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A leading UK astrophysicist asserts that intelligent extraterrestrials might be discovered this century.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Credit: University of Oxford)
While speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum conference in Dublin, Ireland, Jocelyn Bell Burnell announced, “I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, maybe even intelligent life, within the next century.” The Daily Mail jokes that this is “a scientific prediction that will get dollar signs pinging in Steven Spielberg’s eyes.” But Burnell, a professor and astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, proposes that governments, rather than Hollywood filmmakers, should prepare for contact. She poses questions for governments to consider, such as, “How well prepared are we? Have we thought of how we approach them? Should we put them in a zoo, eat them, send in GIs to bring them democracy?”
According to the Daily Mail, Burnell believes “we are most likely to find alien life where we find rocky planets with carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmospheres.” But as the Times of India points out, “Even if we do find signs of alien life, it is likely to take decades to talk to them from Earth through radio or lasers.” Burnell commented on this point, stating, “Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So you are probably talking of conversations that could take 50 or 100 years, just one way.”
In conjunction with this story, the Daily Mail referenced a poll conducted by the Royal Society that determined forty-four percent of Britons believe extraterrestrial life exists, and more than a third feel we should be actively searching and trying to make contact with extraterrestrials.
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Wow how brilliant huh? Encounters have already happened and happen
all of the time.. To which encounter does she refer? Just ones
approved by her or the government? And why would the brits think
that we should actively search for them and try to make contact?
All that does is put money into research that no one can afford,
to get results that never seem to pan out.. Look at SETI for example!
How many dollars have they blown, just to get a questionable WOW
signal one time that could not be verified? No need to search for
them at all. Steven Hawkings says that we should not try to attract
attention by letting any alien race know that we are here..
If and when they decide to land on a lawn of some
building of significance (like they would know that was some “special”
place to land), they will do so. What would that conversation go like
anyway? “Wow, let’s land on that lawn by that big white building
down there, want to?” And the alien co-pilot would say..
“Why that building?” And the pilot would then answer:
“Well that is where everyone seems to think that we should land, for
some unknown reason dummy!” lol.