'We'll find life in 20 years': NASA

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Within 20 years, NASA expects to confirm ‘we are not alone’ and find the first traces of alien life

WASHINGTON: -- 100 MILLION worlds may hold alien life in our galaxy. Now NASA has detailed exactly how it expects to find the first inhabited planet other than our own within our lifetimes.

“Just imagine the moment, when we find potential signatures of life. Imagine the moment when the world wakes up and the human race realises that its long loneliness in time and space may be over — the possibility we’re no longer alone in the universe,” Matt Mountain, director and Webb telescope scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore said this morning.

That moment, he believes, is likely to be within the next 20 years.

A meeting was held at NASA’s Washington headquarters this morning to detail international efforts aimed at finding life out there.

The presentation detailed NASA’s road map for the search for life in the universe, involving a series of current and future telescopes.

“Sometime in the near future, people will be able to point to a star and say, ‘that star has a planet like Earth’,” Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told the gathering of NASA and affiliated planet hunters.

Full story: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/within-20-years-nasa-expects-to-confirm-we-are-not-alone-and-find-the-first-traces-of-alien-life/story-fnjwlcze-1226989404690

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[Ulysses G.]

I did not know that was NASA employing fortune tellers now.

 

[NeverSure]

There are in fact life forms that are not of this world. Many of them post on ThaiVisa.  

[terryp]

with that statement alone they are admitting it ...just as the Vatican hinted a couple of years ago

[daveAustin]

The other NASA already knows.

[WitawatWatawit]

"Jesus wept. I've travelled a hundred million light years to go diving off Phi Phi and you stop me at a land border?"

[lostsoul49]

I think we all know the galaxy is teaming with life.

 

It would be extremely arrogant to assume we are the only life in the galaxy.

 

Probably some alien civilizations much farther advanced than humans on account they could have been around for tens if not hundreds of millions of years longer.

 

Our own race is in its infancy, just a few million years in development, and look at what we have achieved, especially in the last 150 years alone. Our own development is accelerating at a breakneck speed.... Imagine how advanced an alien race could be if it has been around on an earth like planet for say 150 million years.

 

Chances are, they will come visit us before we visit them.

 

I believe the nearest star with the possibility of an earth like planet is 25 trillion miles away.

[Deacon Bell]

It's when the human race master the alteration of space-time, is when things get really interesting.

 

At the speed that such sciences are developing it may not be that far away (hundreds of years rather than 1000's).

 

Consider that the first person to walk on the moon could have met the first human ever to fly, as they were both alive at the same time. That is the speed of our development.

 

When time-space can be bent and altered, in 200, 1,000 or 5,000 years (my bet is for less than 1000) then what is out there will be seen and explored. Until then, the physical exploration using space craft won't be able to get us too far away from home, to Mars and possibly the moons of the gas giants, and that is it.

Edited July 15, 2014 by Deacon Bell

[klauskunkel]

 

'We'll find life in 20 years': NASA

sounds like a typical Chalerm statement, hmmm is this where he went?

[losworld]

NASA is full of bs.  Sorry space travel is a nice dream but we cannot travel at high speeds necessary to reach far away planets.  What NASA fails to tell you is that even if we could go at the speed of light necessary one mere grain of sand would blow a ship apart upon impact.  There is way to much debris in space to make any kind of serious distance.  Better to spend the money taking care of earth's problems and plenty of 'em.  Let the aliens come to us lol. 

 

NASA must be under a budget review.

[rijb]

They're talking about space telescopes, not space travel.  

[Tywais]

They're talking about space telescopes, not space travel.  

 

Some members just read the headlines and go no further. 

 

As for the fortune teller comment.  It's actually called the law of probability.
 

[Radar501]

NASA is full of bs.  Sorry space travel is a nice dream but we cannot travel at high speeds necessary to reach far away planets.  What NASA fails to tell you is that even if we could go at the speed of light necessary one mere grain of sand would blow a ship apart upon impact.  There is way to much debris in space to make any kind of serious distance.  Better to spend the money taking care of earth's problems and plenty of 'em.  Let the aliens come to us lol. 

 

NASA must be under a budget review.

 

The NASA statement refers to FINDING life, NOT personally dropping by their planet for scones and tea.

 

Beam me up Scotty.  

[johna]

NASA have been going around and around in their international space station for so long they are dizzy.

[newermonkey]

I think we all know the galaxy is teaming with life.

 

It would be extremely arrogant to assume we are the only life in the galaxy.

 

Probably some alien civilizations much farther advanced than humans on account they could have been around for tens if not hundreds of millions of years longer.

 

Our own race is in its infancy, just a few million years in development, and look at what we have achieved, especially in the last 150 years alone. Our own development is accelerating at a breakneck speed.... Imagine how advanced an alien race could be if it has been around on an earth like planet for say 150 million years.

 

Chances are, they will come visit us before we visit them.

 

I believe the nearest star with the possibility of an earth like planet is 25 trillion miles away.

 

I dont think its arrogant to think we "might" be the only life in the universe its perfectly possible it was a one off occorance. when you look at the coincidences involved just in the very first aperance of life, that very chance mix of amino acids and some sort of trigger at the same time the ods are staggering, and the conditions for alowing such life to start up in the first place must be extreemly rare as well.

There has been no confirmed evidence whatsoever of life outside our planet. and its quite possible we are completely unique.

Structurally complex and intelligent life evolved relatively late on Earth, and in looking at the probability of the difficult and critical evolutionary steps that occurred in relation to the life span of Earth, A limit to evolution is the habitability of Earth, and any other Earth-like planets, which will end as the sun brightens. Solar models predict that the brightness of the sun is increasing, while temperature models suggest that because of this the future life span of Earth will be “only” about another billion years, a short time compared to the four billion years since life first appeared on the planet.

Sorry to be such a pessamist but you have to study the facts and then the theory of a universe teaming with inteligent life does not hold up.
 

 

[Ulysses G.]

I think we all know the galaxy is teaming with life.

We don't KNOW anything. We are just guessing.

[newermonkey]

It's when the human race master the alteration of space-time, is when things get really interesting.

 

At the speed that such sciences are developing it may not be that far away (hundreds of years rather than 1000's).

 

Consider that the first person to walk on the moon could have met the first human ever to fly, as they were both alive at the same time. That is the speed of our development.

 

When time-space can be bent and altered, in 200, 1,000 or 5,000 years (my bet is for less than 1000) then what is out there will be seen and explored. Until then, the physical exploration using space craft won't be able to get us too far away from home, to Mars and possibly the moons of the gas giants, and that is it.

 

its "the space-time continuum" but here is why you are wrong in thinking its ever going to work :

view time as a dimension or a simple human construct to make sense of entropy/energy transfers and their rates, the conclusion will vary, one allows for time travel (if its a dimension you can supposedly move either way) if it is an illusion of the mind there is nothing you can do aside from slowing down or speeding up natural processes which is quite different from the idea of time travel.

The clocks differences and time dilations all can be explained by difference in rates of decay/energy transfer, and if that is the case then again, calling something going really fast time travel then you have to call your fridge a time travel machine, same principle (slowing down processes) different means (removing energy vs gravitational effects on matter)
 

[Bpuumike]

 

I think we all know the galaxy is teaming with life.
 
It would be extremely arrogant to assume we are the only life in the galaxy.
 
Probably some alien civilizations much farther advanced than humans on account they could have been around for tens if not hundreds of millions of years longer.
 
Our own race is in its infancy, just a few million years in development, and look at what we have achieved, especially in the last 150 years alone. Our own development is accelerating at a breakneck speed.... Imagine how advanced an alien race could be if it has been around on an earth like planet for say 150 million years.
 
Chances are, they will come visit us before we visit them.
 
I believe the nearest star with the possibility of an earth like planet is 25 trillion miles away.

Look how far we've got in the last 45 years since the first moon landing.

[biplanebluey]

 

NASA is full of bs.  Sorry space travel is a nice dream but we cannot travel at high speeds necessary to reach far away planets.  What NASA fails to tell you is that even if we could go at the speed of light necessary one mere grain of sand would blow a ship apart upon impact.  There is way to much debris in space to make any kind of serious distance.  Better to spend the money taking care of earth's problems and plenty of 'em.  Let the aliens come to us lol. 

 

NASA must be under a budget review.

 

The NASA statement refers to FINDING life, NOT personally dropping by their planet for scones and tea.

 

Beam me up Scotty.  

 

 

If there is life somewhere that is far advanced than ours,why havnt they come to earth

[Bpuumike]

 

 

NASA is full of bs.  Sorry space travel is a nice dream but we cannot travel at high speeds necessary to reach far away planets.  What NASA fails to tell you is that even if we could go at the speed of light necessary one mere grain of sand would blow a ship apart upon impact.  There is way to much debris in space to make any kind of serious distance.  Better to spend the money taking care of earth's problems and plenty of 'em.  Let the aliens come to us lol. 
 
NASA must be under a budget review.

 
The NASA statement refers to FINDING life, NOT personally dropping by their planet for scones and tea.
 
Beam me up Scotty.  
 

 
If there is life somewhere that is far advanced than ours,why havnt they come to earth

Probably thought it wasn't worth it.

[Carib]

If there is life out there we have nothing to worry about since they will not be able to reach earth in a few decades time, we already put up a barrier of space junk you wouldn't believe, space is just the next place to ruin.

 

 

[bkkjames]

I find it amusing that the human race (some people) are arrogant enough to believe we Could Be / Are the Only Life in the Universe and just because we haven't found life elsewhere  - it couldn't  / doesnt' exist.  

[AnotherOneAmerican]

doh Edited July 15, 2014 by AnotherOneAmerican

[avander]

The stats support the probability and now they are stating the bleeding obvious.  

It was always just a matter of time but it will be very interesting to see what transpires from direct communications rather than just the faxct that we identify far away signatures of life.  That could be quite some time away.    

[MJP]

If there is life out there we have nothing to worry about since they will not be able to reach earth in a few decades time, we already put up a barrier of space junk you wouldn't believe, space is just the next place to ruin.

 

 

 

It'll end up like fly tipping  Aliens see a load of old fridges and sofas dumped around earth. An intergalactic Ford Transit tipper reverses up and adds to it.

[Jonmarleesco]

There are more than a few politicians who could benefit from tests for life.

[Chicog]

Chances are our planet will be destroyed before then, and if any intelligent life form has a look at earth, they probably wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, especially if they've seen "War of the Worlds".

 

 

[cooked]

NASA is full of bs.  Sorry space travel is a nice dream but we cannot travel at high speeds necessary to reach far away planets.  What NASA fails to tell you is that even if we could go at the speed of light necessary one mere grain of sand would blow a ship apart upon impact.  There is way to much debris in space to make any kind of serious distance.  Better to spend the money taking care of earth's problems and plenty of 'em.  Let the aliens come to us lol. 
 
NASA must be under a budget review.

Who's talking about leaving the solar system lunk head! And who's talking about aliens? Bacteria, maybe algae or other microorganisms ...

[Goshawk]

The other NASA already knows.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDBTd0VpLdo

 

[amse]

Find life, like what? Spider-mites, worms, yo-mama!