Alien Life May Be Found Within 40 Years Claims Royal Astronomer To The Queen
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
Finding alien life beyond our solar system would be the most profound discovery in all of humanity, and a royal astronomer for the Queen of England believes it could happen within the next 40 years.
Former Royal Society president, Lord Martin Rees, speaking at the launch of Professor Stephen Hawking’s new series ‘Grand Design,’ said evidence of whether alien life exists elsewhere in the universe could be answered in that timeframe. He said he believes that astro-physicists could be able to view images of distant planets outside the solar system as early as 2025, potentially leading to the discovery of some form of life, the Telegraph reported.
“We know now that stars are orbited by retinues of planets just as our sun is. We have learned this in just the last decade, essentially,” Rees said. “Within 10 or 20 years we will be able to image other planets like the earth, orbiting other stars. That will be a really exciting subject to see if there is evidence for [extra-terrestrial] life or not.”
Hawking’s series, which will air on Discovery Channel beginning next Thursday, will be based on his best-selling book by the same name. It will study everything from Isaac Newton’s theories on gravity to the recent Higgs boson findings, and everything in between. He will also air his take on the relationship between God and science, and what the meaning of life is for humans, reports Mail Online’s Liz Thomas.
Hawking had previously described heaven as a “fairytale.” That controversy will become even more heated when he talks more about the subject during the new series. “I think science can explain the universe without the need for God,” he said at the series launch.
Rees admitted that there could be some scientific challenges that are “beyond human brains” and that we may need alien interaction to help us learn more. “There may be some questions that our brains will never understand, in the same way that chimpanzees couldn’t understand quantum theory, that are just beyond human brains.”
It may even take another step in the evolutionary chain before these challenges can be understood, he added. We may also have to wait and learn from some aliens that may be far ahead of us, Mail Online reports.
Rees said previously that aliens may be “staring us in the face” in a form that humans are not yet able to recognize. “The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology. I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive.”
In related news, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute may have to restrict its radio telescope operations–which hunt for signs of alien intelligence form other worlds–unless it can bridge a gap in funding.
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Hawking may be a brilliant scientist and an authority on alien life. But he knows nothing about the Bible or God, and just because he doesnt think it exist, doesnt mean it DOESN’T. There is an afterlife and I have had glimpses of it and God created everything and there was no Big Bang. I for one, do not think think their is any human life in our galaxy or the universe , though there may be a different kind of life. God made Earth for Man and man only, imo.
guess your in for a rude awakening….the god of the bible is nothing more than other beings who were far evolved compared to us…so they of course saw them as god. Life is abundant through out our galaxy and the universe. Its not my opinion it is a fact that has yet to be accepted by the confused sleeping masses of this planet
Martin is looking for alien life forms somewhere out there. But they are here. One third of the angels were cast out of heaven and fell to earth at the time of Lucifer’s rebellion. Genesis tells us “And the earth was without form and void”. The verb is mistranslated; the Hebrew “hayah” means “became”, not “was”. The earth became without form and void; due to the rebellion. This explains an earth of greater antiquity than merely the 6000 year period for which man has been on the earth.
Martin thinks that we may have to evolve further to understand the universe we live in. Our brain is like a computer ( a cliche, I know ), but the software we can load is directly from the mind of God. We have the mind of God, if it be that we have the Spirit of God, which He gives only to those who believe, and are then baptized. With this mind, we can understand all things in heaven and on earth. This explains why what we are saying is foolishness to the vast majority; they do not have the new download of divine software.
How can they understand? It is impossible.
Stephen thinks that the reality of heaven is a fairytale. He lacks the software to understand, you see. Let me put it this way. If he were to be lowered through the roof on his wheelchair, to come into the presence of the Son of God, he could be healed of his infirmity. Would he be too proud to ask for forgiveness? This is man’s awful tragedy. We have a Creator whose Name we know, who has walked amongst us, and instead of humbling ourselves before His love and kindness, we nail him brutally to a post of wood. But He is returning in the clouds of heaven, and with His holy angels. The whole world will see Him and mourn.
Just in conclusion, we have here an Astronomer Royal who does not understand astronomy. There is no evidence whatsoever that the earth is part of a solar system. It is better described as an “earth system”. We do not revolve around the sun, and NOBODY has ever shown that we do. Let me repeat, nobody. Indeed the reverse is true, as we are told “He stablished the earth that it cannot move”. The earth does not rotate at 1000 mph, as a moment’s thought will prove. Further, the sun is not a nuclear fusion reaction; as the black spots observed as sunspots will show you; these are regions through which we can see the dark and cold body which the sun actually is inside. It is a body connected to the universal streams of plasma which join every celestial body together. This stream of plasma lights the sun; the corollary being that it can be switched off in a heartbeat. See “The Electric Universe” website for more information.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
apparently hes not in the know…
guess your in for a rude awakening
YES THIS IS TRUE,BUT ONLY IF I LIVE THAT LONG I,M 63 AND IF I LIVE TO 100+ I,M GOING TO ALLOW RESEARCHERS UP MY ARSE,THERE THE TRUTH WILL BE FOUND, JUST LIKE THIS STORY, UP MY ARSE