NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Predicts We'll Find Signs Of Alien Life Within 10 Years

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/08/nasa-alien-life_n_7023134.html

 

Interesting video about this subject also from NASA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiAT41aHaH4#t=431

[JMKAM]

We have more than enough proof of Alien life already. I don't care what NASA does.

 

[Starless Aeon]

I thought religions were in charge of predictions?!   And based on what exactly? Hundreds of alien life forms we discovered so far? No?

[Cynical Misanthrope]

We still haven't fully explored our own planet. We still find new life-forms. One weirder than the next. Some defy what we think we know about life itself.

And NASA talks about finding Alien life in space. Excuse me while go and bash my head against a wall.

[Jexsam]

If they got the funding they deserved in the first place, they wouldn't have to make cash-grab claims like this. They aren't trying to secure anyone's financial future, they're begging for scraps from the public in the hopes the government might be swayed to not buy that tenth multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier...

 

And besides, exploring space doesn't require our own planet be completely explored. We hadn't explored all the land ever before we set out to sea, after all.

[Wight Zombi]

I would find this more intriguing if this had more concrete evidence, instead of relying heavily on supposition and conjecture.

[daggerfish]

It's interesting for sure, however that's one very lofty prediction...

Consider that the Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977. It didn't actually exit the solar system until 17 months ago. That's about 37 years for a one way ticket just to get out of our immediate neighborhood. Technology has not progressed to the point where we could significantly improve upon Voyager 1 speeds, so if we have to look outside of our Solar system to the next closest star alone, we are talking about thousands if not tens of thousands of years in transit time. Entirely unfeasible.

So, outside of a rover or probe, which we already covered, the only means available to us would be via telescope, which are not powerful enough to spot microbial life on a planet orbiting a star several dozen light years away. What does that leave? The discovery occurring within the solar system, or another enormous technological breakthrough that shatters our concepts of traveling through space.

Seems like the headline should be 'NASA Chief confident that extraterrestrial microbial life exists elsewhere within our Solar System and will be found soon.' 

Oh, and just to throw this out there... NASA receives only about 0.5% of the Federal Budget per year, yet consistently returns that investment and then some with the new technologies, discoveries and inventions it churns out. Do you enjoy having a handheld device which can access virtually any piece of information from human history within seconds? Then thank NASA and that pathetic 0.5% per year for the microchip.

[ToJKa]

Yes, space exploration has produced lots of advanced technology. Though not as much as a war, mind you Jet engines, mobile phones, computers... Damn atom bomb, if that hadn't been invented, we'd be celebrating the ten year anniversary of the end of WW3 in flying cars this year!

 

Joking aside, i maintain that space is fucking big, thus life forms on other planets are all but guaranteed, but contact with them will happen with stray radio messages, at best. Which is still more unlikely than getting hit by a meteorite the moment you win 50.000.000 € in a lottery

[marxman1313]

It's interesting for sure, however that's one very lofty prediction...

 

Consider that the Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977. It didn't actually exit the solar system until 17 months ago. That's about 37 years for a one way ticket just to get out of our immediate neighborhood. Technology has not progressed to the point where we could significantly improve upon Voyager 1 speeds, so if we have to look outside of our Solar system to the next closest star alone, we are talking about thousands if not tens of thousands of years in transit time. Entirely unfeasible.

 

So, outside of a rover or probe, which we already covered, the only means available to us would be via telescope, which are not powerful enough to spot microbial life on a planet orbiting a star several dozen light years away. What does that leave? The discovery occurring within the solar system, or another enormous technological breakthrough that shatters our concepts of traveling through space.

 

Seems like the headline should be 'NASA Chief confident that extraterrestrial microbial life exists elsewhere within our Solar System and will be found soon.' 

 

Oh, and just to throw this out there... NASA receives only about 0.5% of the Federal Budget per year, yet consistently returns that investment and then some with the new technologies, discoveries and inventions it churns out. Do you enjoy having a handheld device which can access virtually any piece of information from human history within seconds? Then thank NASA and that pathetic 0.5% per year for the microchip.

hmm guess he thinks we're gonna be invaded lets hope the navy finisheslasers on ships                          

 

 

 

ok joke'n aside it is still very possible that life exist beond our little blue plantet not to mention we have descoverd other plantets that have a high possiblity ove being water based and on top of that mars does have microscopic life  

 

and on a religos standpoint  (well christian atleast) the bible stats that god created everything including other planets so whats to say  he didn't put life on those planets like he did ours the bible doesn't  say he didn't  

 

and as for many tribes they say that they do exist and one native american tribe even says that ant people took them underground  during a alein war. and then there's the fact that Columbus and his crew had an UFO siting as well as a admiral while scopeing out japan  in the late 1800s all i'm say'n is there is mush reason to believe  that alein exist on religous,historic and scientific  veiw points

[Angrybird]

I've always thought that alien life that can travel above the speed of light would be incomprehensible and probably invisible to us.

[Kaz Aanh]

What if space is dead , and we are the only one alive out there.

[Chaos63]

Let's focus on getting out of Sol first, yeah? We can deal with Garruses and Wrexes later.

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Just a article and video about science and you guys are so negative bah. No wonder this planet is mess.

[nonusnomeni]

Just a article and video about science and you guys are so negative bah. No wonder this planet is mess.

do you know how many times was predicted "end of the world"?

almost same number as NASA's statement "very soon we will find intelligent life in universe"

so don't be surprised by high amount of skepticism when NASA is in question

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@nonusnomeni,

Missing my point completely, unbelievable

[DoctaSax]

I sure hope there's intelligent life out there. There's very little of it down here.

[Cynical Misanthrope]

What if space is dead , and we are the only one alive out there.

 

Space is not dead. There are constantly forming new planets, stars and galaxies. That's sounds pretty alive to me.

I guess it depends on the definition of life thou. Space is alive, but hosting other life forms? Well, thats another cent.

 

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

We've been predicting that we'd find alien life for decades now, yet no actual official evidence has yet been provided. If there is any other intelligent life, and I feel that it's impossible for there to not be given how vast the universe is, the same vastness would also make it virtually impossible for us to detect them, much less have them come here.

 

Meanwhile, WHERE THE FUCK are my lunar and Mars colonies, huh?!

[Captain Cobra]

Space is cool.

[Erundil]

Wow. Really surprising how this thread developed.

 

OP just gave us an article to read. There are tons of articles like this one - nothing solid, but nothing easily disproved. Quality assesment: avarage.

The only reaction that makes sense to me is "ok, thx OP".

 

Meanwhile the community goes on about their beliefs about universe. Not to mention a lot of things written in this thread have nothing to do with reality. Strange.

 

Anyway - ok OP, thx.

[SpleenSerene]

I want to shake their hand.

[Cynical Misanthrope]

I want to shake their hand.

 

Who's? NASA or Aliens?

 

What if we find a Alien race, where they "shake hands" with each other, by rubbing the other Alien/person's crotch?

Still wanna do it?  

 

[SpleenSerene]

 

I want to shake their hand.

 

Who's? NASA or Aliens?

 

What if we find a Alien race, where they "shake hands" with each other, by rubbing the other Alien/person's crotch?

Still wanna do it?  

 

 

Nope, I just wanna shake their hands, literately. (aliens').

[Redflyingmonkey]

Stofan is Nasa's chief scientist, okay, I just don't know what kind of "science" that title refers to. Astronomy or astrology ? May be just american science too. Or marketing science. Or whack-a-mole science ? Nutjob science ? Kool-aid science ?

[Guest Comrade DR. MAHUJ DIK]

Why people always think of  aliens with superior tecnology ? its possible we are the ones with superior tecnology or that were in the same level. Also I Think is probable that well be the ones invading other planets, There are several big companies that are fucking the world for profit and they are to big to fail, we have several tecnologies that could help make the climatic changes slow down but they would rreduce the profits of some powerful people so they arent used, also it wouldnt change the lifestyle of great part of the population ad no ruler want to mess with it because it would be the end of its poitical carrer. Earth is fucked, were beyond the point of no return we can not "save the planet" anymore all we can do is to try to prvent everithyin to goin to shit and our extinction. I see 3 possibilities for human space expansion:

1) we become a race of planet devourers and destoy other planets for resources so we dont have to destroy our homeplanet.

2) we begin a huge expansion and do the imperialism and colonization process again, but try ot to destroy the colonies.

3) we leave earth and try to find other planets to live.