Discovery of Alien life beyond Earth in 20 year!

May 29, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Scientists may be closer to discover alien life beyond the Earth, and they say it may happen within two decades.

Two leading scientists related to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have recently told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in Washington D.C. that there is huge chances of discovering alien life within 20 years.

Along with exoplanets, there is also a big possibility of finding alien world and oceans on exomoons.

A team of scientists studied the data collected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Hoping of detecting alien interplanetary radio signals, they spent 36 hours listening when the planets in targeted solar systems lined up, relative to Earth’s perspective.

“We think the right strategy in SETI is a variety of strategies. It’s really hard to predict what other civilizations might be doing,” said Dan Werthimer, director of SETI research at the University of California Berkeley.

NASA’s Kepler telescope has triggered the search for new aligned planets and alien world.

Kepler, launched in March 2009, is the first NASA mission to find potentially habitable Earth-size planets. The discoveries of Kepler include more than 3,600 planet candidates, of which 961 have been verified as bona-fide worlds.

Since the discovery of the first planet, two decades ago, outside our solar system, verification has been a laborious planet-by-planet process.

Kepler observed 1,50,000 stars and found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates. Kepler, named after the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, observed hundreds of stars that have multiple planet candidates out of which 715 new planets were verified.

The latest discovery by Kepler brings the confirmed count of planets outside our solar system to nearly 1,700.

Scott Sinnock

What if we don’t find life? What if we are really alone? What if the stars are so far we can never reach them even if they harbor life?
- J.R.
  
  Then we’ll keep trying. If the stars are too far away for us, we’ll pave the way so the future generations can go further. If the stars hold no life, then we’ll bring life to them. While you and I may never see first contact or set foot on an alien world, the future of humanity as a whole is limitless.
  - Scott Sinnock
    
    Expansion without limits. I have heard of it. Several books have been written challenging that assumption. I sometimes prefer to think of it as the potential spread of the “intelligence virus” to the stars. The conquering Captain Kirk who violates the Prime Directive in almost every situation, spreading the “goodness” of American “freedom” and “democracy” and “love of exploration”, even if it destroys long standing, perfectly happy civilizations.
    - J.R.
      
      Ah, but the written word can only give us so much. In truth, no matter how many times we write stories about how space travel and our eventual expansion will look, we can only but guess as how it will look in practice. There’s a good chance we may end up the same way we did here, continuous conquest of other cultures and exploitation of other worlds until they eventually become uninhabitable. But who’s to say that at least some won’t learn from our mistakes and work to live in harmony with that which lies beyond the stars. In either case, I leave the destiny of future generations with them. For us, we either have to chose whether we aim to push progress forward so that they can one day choose for themselves, or try to impede it for fear of what we believe they might do once they get out. I’m not saying I have any idea what kind of people the future generations will become once they move to other worlds, but I do believe it’s not our right to try to stop them.
      - Scott Sinnock
        
        Future people will probably be just like us, as I said and you said is possible. I did mention that perhaps we, or at least some, can respect others ways of life and morals and thus live in harmony (we can do it now). So far our political groups do not do that, however. That is why they are political – they “oppose” some other “way”. You write, “For us, we either have to chose whether we aim to push progress forward ….. or try to impede it …..”.
        I prefer Buddha, Aristotle, and Jesus’ “middle way”. Just wait and see, neither push nor impede, but enjoy what is … now …. not what “could”, or worse yet, what “should” be. Joy occurs now. Thoughts of the future bring to “now” frustration and lamentation about “what is not” but should be, or about “what is” but should not be. Acceptance and thanks is a better course for some of us, rather than “progress” and associated “cursing” of the present the “bad” (disharmony) or “undeveloped” (technological, economic, poverty) state of world affairs.
searambler

This article reads like it was written by a sixth grader. One who did poorly in grammar, punctuation, and proof-reading.
- alteclansing182
  
  Roger that. Pathetic article. Not a lot of meat to it, that’s for sure. And is it 961 or 715 verified new planets?
- Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
  
  “Amanda Pierce – Editor
  Amanda makes her home in Salt Lake City it is a graduate of the University of Georgia where she earned her MBA. Her work has been published on numerous publications and has extensive Internet, print, and broadcast experience.”
  
  I guess an MBA isn’t worth much these days. I’d like to post my comment in the same grammatically incorrect style as the article above, but my head would explode…
  - Mary Hart
    
    Amanda Pierce bought that degree online.. she’s pathetic
johnstclair

Since humans were created by the Anunnaki aliens, you could say that these two astronomers have discovered alien life working at SETI. I nominate them for the Nobel Prize in Astrobiology. And we didn’t have to wait 20 years for this remarkable discovery that we are not alone in the universe. Wow!
irenebrown

“We think the right strategy in SETI is a variety of strategies. It’s really hard to predict what other civilizations might be doing,” Dan Werthimer, director of SETI research at the University of California Berkeley, TOLD DISCOVERY NEWS.(in a copyright story)

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/hunt-intensifies-for-aliens-on-keplers-planets-140528.htm
irenebrown

This article is in violation of copyright. The next step will be to bring it to the attention of Discovery Communications’ rather large team of lawyers. Your choice.