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Have We Been Looking in the Wrong Place For Extraterrestrials?

Monday, April 18, 2016 1:05
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Are we the only intelligent species in the universe? Astronomers have asked this question for decades, and for the most part, so has the human race.

Space is huge, with billions of stars in our galaxy alone. So, how do we narrow down where to listen? Well, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany and from McMaster University in Canada may have come up with the solution.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered more than 1,000 exoplanets. However, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has not been so successful. Does this mean that there are no extraterrestrials out there? Are really we alone?

Researchers René Heller and Ralph Pudritz believe the best chance we have to finding a signal would be to presume that any extraterrestrial observers would be using the same methods to search for us, that we are using to search for life in the universe.

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  • We do not have to listen for signals in the farthest reaches of outer space… We do not have to keep searching for other life forms with our high powered telescopes, rockets, probes and satellite imaging… The extraterrestrials are already here!… Often they are hidden from our direct viewing but they have always been here… You got to admit, most of our political world leaders seem t be a bit alien and foreign to most human beings… There seems to be a lack of empathy and compassion for the rest of our citizenship on planet Earth…

    • Neo

      extra-terrestrial they ain’t

    • Yep, there in Dulce

  • Would you really come to this world knowing what is taking place. I do not think so.

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