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Finding Them
Where would we find them ?
There are trillions of stars in our galaxy alone and probably as many galaxies as there are stars in our galaxy. The distances between the stars are a major hurdle for us to visit and them to visit. The nearest star to our own planet is 4 light years away. In other words, it would take 4 years travelling the speed of light non-stop all the way. When we get there, we'd probably only be disappointed as there has not been any evidence yet that the star has an orbiting planet. Planets that have been discovered outside our solar system have been large gas planets that orbit too close to their star for life to exist. Scientists have apparently identified a star that is not too far away and not too cold, just about right to support an Earth-like planet. For more details you will need to check out the BBC Report on the matter.
Einsteins Theory ?
One of Einsteins theorys is that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. In order for us to get there and
back from any other solar system in a reasonable amount of time, this theory will have to be broken.
If this was not possible, the only other way
would be to send a spaceship with an infinate amount of fuel containing people on an one way journey to the new world to colonize.
This would cause a number of problems, who would volunteer for such a journey, being couped up on
a space ship for so long a time. Would we do what the British did in the early part of the 18/19th century who sent convicts to Australia but this time into space. They would need to be able to sustain themselves both in terms of food and human
population. One idea would be to put them into sleep until they reached the new world. Once there, would they
welcome by any alien lifeforces we discover at the end of the journey.
What about Martians ?
There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether there is or ever has been life on Mars. The current thinking is that
if any life does exist on Mars now then it's a very basic viral lifeform. The British Space Community launched Beagle 2 as
part of a European exploration of Mars to disover if there is any primitive life or not. Beagle 2 would land on the planet to carry out the experiments on the planets surface and beam them up to the
Mars Explorer. America is sending two rover vehicles to the planets and the Japanese are sending ones too. The Beagle 2 is due to land on the planet on 25th December 2003. The reason for the
intense interest in Mars at the moment is because Earth and Mars are at their closest. There is a theory that has been
expressed that Martians live underground, unfortunately we will not find out this unless they live near the surface. The Beagle 2
will not bring back any samples, all experiments will be carried out on the red planet. Another mission to the planet is planned in a couple of years time to bring samples back to Earth. There was a recent report in the news
that said Nasa had found the fossilised remains of a virus on a rock from Mars. The rock had landed on Antartica, it had ended up on the planet after being thrown into space as debris from a metoer hit on
the planet. The Mars rock viral remains has since been discounted. It
is in my view that life once did exist but not now. Scientists recently said that methane, a gas more commonly produced by living creatures was discovered on Earth. This raises the prospect of life
on Mars. For millions of years before the dinosaurs, the only life that existed on Earth was viruses. Humans were only able to evolve once the conditions were right which Mars has not yet got to that
position yet and more than likely never will. When the planets were created, Earth included, both planets had very basic life on them. However, life on Earth was able to survive but it wasn't
successful on Mars. The BBC website has documented stories relating
to the meteorite from Mars, to discover more, starting reading
from this weblink.
And Europans ?
The only other celestial body that people believe could support life in our solar system is the Jupiter moon Europa. Satiellites that have flown
past have indicated a large area of frozen water. Scientist believe that below the surface could be unfrozen liquid which
could contain life. An exploration satiellite to the moon is not set to blast off for years yet, five maybe ten years.
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| | just a friend of a neighbour | December 5, 2007, 4:26 pm | | I had just the same experiance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG im not the only one!!! |
| | abbie | | | I HAVE HAD MADE CONTACED WWHIT AN ALIAN AND THEY ARE NOT WERID LOKING THEY HAVE GREEN AND GRAY SKIN. THERE HEADS AS BIG AS AN 14" T.V. AND THERE EYS ARE AS BIG AS AN HOURESEYE BIT NNOT BUG EYED. and they can tack yhe shap of any thing LIVING ever since i have made contaced whith them theyb r threring hurt mmmmmmmee and my frinds. this is not a lie i have realy made contaced |
| | vitaliy | | | can they come throw gateways?or black holes. |
| | BillB | | | I could understand the fact that alien life could be merely virus and bacteria, although I'm pretty much grasping at straws here. But, I mean, that's not so hard to believe, considering amino gasses inhabited asteriods and comets and whatnot, perhaps some new glop made little alien viruses. And that the weird little men with huge heads was basically human instinctual fear of unknown stuff. Like people fear spiders, because they don't know if they're poisonoous, when in fact if we leave 'em alone, they...don't...bite. |
| | will aust | | | Somehow the ancient egyptians knew in their religious-cosmology the same "theory" of modern science. Egyptians 3,000 yrs ago said Atum created seeds everywhere (panspermia) and they landed on earth (i.e. inside ben ben mound) and life evolved from those ben ben seeds. You can see that theory on a USA one dollar bill its the 'eye' in the small pyramid |
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