You
and Carol took Kim to lunch at Olive Garden at Polaris, stopped to see the
progress on their house, drove her home and stopped to see Andy F. at
Ameriprise in Worthington before heading home. You are pleased that the Avalon
is getting 39.8 miles per gallon by filling the tank and 40 miles per gallon
via the car’s computer. Once home you each had your own light suppers and
watched several DVRed shows before the present. – Amorella
2214 hours. I need to check the email before bed. The rest can wait
until tomorrow. – I found an article that I like to see in print from time to
time because it allows me to feel less foolish concerning my thoughts on the
subject.
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“We Are Not Alone
In Universe,
NASA Scientists
Say”
The
Huffington Post | By Sara Gates
Posted: 07/15/2014 4:56 pm EDT
Updated: 5 hours ago
It's
highly unlikely we're alone in the universe, NASA experts are saying, and we
may be close to finding alien life. In fact, it may happen in the next two
decades.
NASA held
a panel discussion at the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, where
space experts talked about the search for Earth-like planets that host life.
Based on recent advancements in space telescope technology, scientists
estimated that in the coming decades we'll confirm suspicions that we're not
alone.
"I
think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe,"
NASA astronomer Kevin Hand said in footage filmed at the discussion and posted
on YouTube.
NASA
Administrator Charles Bolden echoed Hand's sentiment.
"It's
highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the universe that we humans
stand alone," he said.
Just this
year, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope picked up on an Earth-like planet in the
“habitable zone” of another star. At the time, the observation of the planet,
Kepler-186f, was hailed as the first discovery of an Earth-size planet orbiting
in the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun.
Scientists
believe there are potentially many more Earth-like planets in the universe --
and some of them could be home to alien life.
"Astronomers
think it is very likely that every single star in our Milky Way galaxy has at
least one planet," Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said during the talk. "Sometime
in the near future, people will be able to point to a star and say, 'that star
has a planet like Earth.'"
With the
expected launch of the James Web Space Telescope in 2018, NASA's planet-hunting
mission will get an extra boost. The new piece of equipment is designed to
study infrared light, making it easier to spot extrasolar planets.
But NASA
may need even larger and more powerful telescopes to discover alien life.
"To find
evidence of actual life is going to take another generation of
telescopes," Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science
Institute, said at Monday's event. "And to do that, we're going to need
new rockets, new approaches to getting into space, new approaches to large
telescopes -- highly advanced optical systems."
From - http://www.huffingtonpostDOTcom/2014/07/15/we-are-not-alone-in-universe-nasa-habitable-planets_n_5588455.html
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2256 hours. I don’t want to belabor the point, but I think it would do
our species some good to find we are not alone.
Your
species is not alone from my perspective. Post. – Amorella
2258 hours. Hmm. I feel there is a logical fallacy in your above
statement Amorella. I wonder how such an ‘alien’ as consider in the article
would be given a legal status on our planet? How would it be worded? “Earth Alien” Some would say that is
what we are at least by some of our actions. ‘Earth’ would have to be defined
as would ‘alien’. However, biochemically one would assume that if
‘carbon-based’ both would be composed of common bio-chemicals mixed and stabilized
within physics. It is late. I am not expressing myself well here.
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