Do you believe that there is life in other planets now?

[JackassJack]

A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth.

Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity’s response if and when extraterrestrials make contact.

Aliens who landed on earth and asked: “Take me to your leader” would be directed to Mrs Othman

She will set out the details of her proposed new role at a Royal Society conference in Buckinghamshire next week.

The 58-year-old is expected to tell delegates that the proposal has been prompted by the recent discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting other starts, which is thought to make the discovery of extraterrestrial life more probable than ever before.

Mrs Othman is currently head of the UN’s little known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa).

In a recent talk to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day human kind will received signals from extraterrestrials.

“When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.”

 

[Case O'Beer]

Apparently, they have nothing better to do. :grrrrrr:

 

[Doggie]

That was the only worry mankind had, now that is solved I can sleep good at night

 

[oagre]

who is paying her salary? That sounds like a job I could do pretty well too.

 

[Cycleguy007]

WTF?!

Ellie was already engaged elsewhere?

 

[amber-jade]

finally ... a job even Ray can't screw up :na::na:

 

[Cycleguy007]

This just in....

This just in....

Aliens 'tried to warn US and Russia they were playing with fire during Cold War’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ne...y-were-playing-with-fire-during-Cold-War.html



[video]https://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/09/27/bts.ufo.activity.cnn?hpt=T2[/video]

 

[Raiden]

finally ... a job even Ray can't screw up :na::na:

Isn't Rayfinkle the Alien?:na:

 

[Darren]

Aliens 'tried to warn US and Russia they were playing with fire during Cold War’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ne...y-were-playing-with-fire-during-Cold-War.html

LMAO they are not doing very good job then, nobody cares what they are saying

 

[Bubba]

Do you believe there are aliens?. 1,000 possible new planets found

Do you believe there are aliens?. 1,000 possible new planets found

https://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/02/science-space-kepler-planets.html

NASA's planet-hunting telescope is finding 1,000 whole new worlds of possibility in the search for alien life. An early report from a cosmic census indicates that relatively small planets and stable multi-planet systems are far more plentiful than previous searches showed.

NASA released new data Wednesday from its Kepler telescope on more than a thousand possible new planets outside our solar system — more than doubling the count of what astronomers call exoplanets.

They haven't been confirmed as planets yet, but some astronomers estimate that 90 per cent of what Kepler has found will eventually be verified.
Small planets outnumber giants

Kepler, launched in 2009, has been orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars, conducting a planet census and searching for Earth-like planets since last year. It has found there are more planets that are much smaller than Jupiter — the biggest planet in our solar system — than there are giant planets.

Some of these even approach Earth's size. That means they are better potential candidates for life than the behemoths that are more easily spotted, astronomers say.
While Kepler hasn't yet found planets that are as small as Earth, all the results are "pointing in the right direction," said University of California Santa Cruz astronomer Jonathan Fortney, a Kepler researcher.

Yale University exoplanet expert Debra Fischer, who wasn't part of the Kepler team but serves as an outside expert for NASA, said the new information "gives us a much firmer footing" in eventual hopes for worlds that could harbour life.

"I feel different today knowing these new Kepler results than I did a week ago," Fischer said. NASA will be holding a news conference early Wednesday afternoon on Kepler's latest findings.

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[Hishcock]

ET exists arty: :drunk:.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

logically I believe we have accept that there is life out there.

Whether or not it is more advanced than us is open to debate however.

 

[HOF]

Yes, I believe

Yes, I believe

Aliens and strange creatures are on my----

:na:

 

[Jawbone]

Aliens and strange creatures are on my----

:na:

They are on this board too trust me!!

 

[HOF]

They are on this board too trust me!!

LOL, I know! Invasion of the trolls

 

[Jesus Quintana]

I think that if they know we exist they are really worried about the crew of the minnow and if they will ever make it home

 

[DatyToGo]

 

[Esco!]

The RayFinkel is proof positive aliens exist

 

[Wanker]

We found ET?.

We found ET?.

MOFFET FIELD, CALIF. - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.
The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface -- among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth.
"We are homing in on the true Earth-sized, habitable planets," said San Jose State University astronomer Natalie Batalha, deputy science team lead for NASA's Kepler Space Telescope that discovered the star.

The telescope, which was launched three years ago, is staring at about 150,000 stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, looking for faint and periodic dimming as any circling planets pass by, relative to Kepler's line of sight.
Results will be extrapolated to determine the percentage of stars in the Milky Way galaxy that harbour potentially habitable, Earth-size planets.

This is the first detection of a potentially habitable world orbiting a Sun-like star, scientists reported in findings to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Kepler-22b is 600 light years away. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km).

GROUND TELESCOPES
Planets about the same distance from their parent stars as Earth take roughly a year to complete an orbit. Scientists want to see at least three transits to be able to rule out other explanations for fluctuations in a star's light, such as small companion stars. Results also are verified by ground and other space telescopes.

Kepler-22b, which is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth, sits squarely in its star's so-called "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on the surface. Follow-up studies are under way to determine if the planet is solid, like Earth, or more gaseous like Neptune.

"We don't know anything about the planets between Earth-size and Neptune-size because in our solar system we have no examples of such planets. We don't know what fraction are going to be rocky, what fraction are going to be water worlds, what fraction are ice worlds. We have no idea until we measure one and see," Batalha said at a news conference at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California.
If Kepler-22b has a surface and a cushion of atmosphere similar to Earth's, it would be about 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 C), about the same as a spring day in Earth's temperate zone.

Among the 2,326 candidate planets found by the Kepler team, 10 are roughly Earth-size and reside in their host stars' habitable zones.
Another team of privately funded astronomers is scanning the target stars for non-naturally occurring radio signals, part of a project known as SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

"As soon as we find a different, a separate, an independent example of life somewhere else, we're going to know that it's ubiquitous throughout the universe," said astronomer Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute in Mountain View.
The Kepler team is meeting for its first science conference this week.

 

[Guido]

OMG, they have SP's on that planet, LOOK!!!! I wonder if they have a AERB (Alian Escort Review Board)?