Scientists searching for extraterrestrial civilizations asked for money, which they promised to find brothers in mind in the next 20 years.
The House Science and Technology Committee recently heard Dan Werthimer and Seth Shostack, leaders of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute looking for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. … It was they who assured the Congressmen that aliens simply have to exist.
Indeed, according to the latest scientific data, only our galaxy - the Milky Way - has trillions of planets. Three times more than stars. And billions of them have all the necessary elements for the origin and maintenance of life. Including reasonable. Finding it is a matter of time and reasonable funding from the American government.
Scientists have assured that they are ready to launch several new projects, which will involve the most powerful telescopes and data processing systems. The search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations will go through billions of channels. Radio astronomers are already "combing" not thousands of stellar systems, as before, but millions. Among them are those that have been found to have terrestrial planets. Thus, Vetaimer and Shostak explained why nothing has been caught so far. Because the technique was not perfect enough, and the research was not so deep.
When asked whether representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations visited us in the past - perhaps millions of years ago, scientists, hesitating, answered negatively. Like, there is no convincing evidence of such contacts.
And now aliens do not visit our planet. According to the rapporteurs, governments could hardly hide it from the public.
Seth Shostak
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Seth Shostak promised to find brothers in mind in the next 20 years. It is possible that he slightly boasted to the congressmen. With colleagues, he was more modest. At the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium, which was held at Stanford University in February, he pledged that he would find intelligent life on other planets in 24 years.
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They blink - we peep
As part of one - a very original project - astronomers will search for signals that aliens exchange with each other. For example, laser pulses.
A fruitful debut idea here is this: an extraterrestrial civilization reaches a sufficiently high level of development and begins to colonize neighboring planets. At least people - in their current plans - adhere to just such a strategy: they are going to settle on Mars, to create a habitable base on the Moon, perhaps on Europa, where an under-ice ocean has been discovered.
With expeditions or colonies, you will have to establish contact, exchange information. These "transmissions" are also going to be intercepted by terrestrial astronomers in those moments when the planets with bases will be in line with the Earth and the mother planet. Astronomers believe that brothers in mind will transmit using laser pulses. And to notice them is quite real.