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

[bjornk]

So what? We have life on Earth and it's not particularly a good thing, it's pretty bad actually.

[pinky6225]

Is NASA looking for funding again? If there is Alien life out there, they are intelligent enough to stay the fuck away from this "shoot first ask questions later" planet.

If we don't understand it, we kill it. Simple logic would dictate there avoidance of us so far. Why would that change in the next 30 years, it hasn't since time was first thought of.

Sounds like someone wants to financially secure their future on the dime of the taxpayer.....Again. 

 

I think it would be safe to assume that a alien race with better engines than us so they have got to our planet before we got to theirs is also going to have better weapons than us so the shoot first ask questions later policy shouldn't apply.

 

 

 

I think the prediction is more about having a goal since as peeps have pointed out already the scientific knowledge and technology we develop from trying to achieve these goals makes the effort/cost worth it

 

[shirow]

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.

 

If aliens had superior technology they would probably erase us. At least they should

[Guest Comrade DR. MAHUJ DIK]

If aliens had a superior tecnology they should have no motivation to invade us unless they wanted slaves. If they wanted natural resources like most movies put as the motivation for a invasion they can get it easier in other places, comets and asteroids are full of minerals and frozen water, it would be easier and cheaper fot them to mine asteroids then tosatrt a military campaign to take over earth, alsowe already used most of our resources.

[SpleenSerene]

If aliens were like children, what's the forst thing you would teach them? I would teach them how to swim

[Starless Aeon]

Worth watching every second of it, but regarding this subject go to 19:13...