Teh One Who Knocks
02-08-2016, 12:16 PM
By Sean Martin - The Express
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ill Tarter of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute has said that aliens arriving on Earth would mean that they are a more advanced society with better technology.
She said: “If they showed up on our doorstep, that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours.
“And because of that, they’re going to be the ones that set the rules.”
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However, Ms Tarter also revealed why she thinks that the human race has been unsuccessful in finding alien life within the universe so far.
She suggests that scientists can only use the technology that is currently available to search for aliens, but that ET might not be on the same wavelength – literally.
Seti uses radio signals to scan the universe in the hope that they will get a response from another civilisation in the galaxy and beyond, who has picked up their broadcast.
Tarter says: “We may not have invented the right way to do this yet.”
She adds: “We can’t define intelligence and we can’t detect it at a distance.
“So we’re stuck using a proxy. And that proxy for us has always been technology.
“We’re looking for something that modifies its environment in ways that we could recognise in the vast distances between the stars.”
Tarter also explains that Seti might not have contacted aliens yet simply because the universe is so vast, and that it would take a long time to scan all of it.
Furthermore, aliens might not even exist yet, according to a recent scientific study.
Scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore found that just eight per cent of planets that would be capable of hosting life have been formed so far.
Fortunately for us, the Earth was one of the earlier planets that would allow life to thrive following the Big Bang which brought the universe to fruition.
After studying data collected by Nasa’s Hubble Telescope and the Kepler space observatory scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore were able to determine the remaining material from the Big Bang that could create habitable planets, and found that there is 92 per cent of said material.
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The Hubble telescope has given astronomers the chance to map star formation within the universe, which shows that it is still creating stars and that just a fraction of the helium and hydrogen to make these has so far been used.
There are an estimated 100 billion more galaxies in the universe, and it is expected that the last star that the universe creates will not be formed for another 100 trillion years.
Co-investigator Molly Peeples said: "There is enough remaining material [after the big bang] to produce even more planets in the future, in the Milky Way and beyond.”
http://i.imgur.com/N81nyVG.jpg
ill Tarter of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute has said that aliens arriving on Earth would mean that they are a more advanced society with better technology.
She said: “If they showed up on our doorstep, that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours.
“And because of that, they’re going to be the ones that set the rules.”
http://i.imgur.com/K31Q89U.jpg
However, Ms Tarter also revealed why she thinks that the human race has been unsuccessful in finding alien life within the universe so far.
She suggests that scientists can only use the technology that is currently available to search for aliens, but that ET might not be on the same wavelength – literally.
Seti uses radio signals to scan the universe in the hope that they will get a response from another civilisation in the galaxy and beyond, who has picked up their broadcast.
Tarter says: “We may not have invented the right way to do this yet.”
She adds: “We can’t define intelligence and we can’t detect it at a distance.
“So we’re stuck using a proxy. And that proxy for us has always been technology.
“We’re looking for something that modifies its environment in ways that we could recognise in the vast distances between the stars.”
Tarter also explains that Seti might not have contacted aliens yet simply because the universe is so vast, and that it would take a long time to scan all of it.
Furthermore, aliens might not even exist yet, according to a recent scientific study.
Scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore found that just eight per cent of planets that would be capable of hosting life have been formed so far.
Fortunately for us, the Earth was one of the earlier planets that would allow life to thrive following the Big Bang which brought the universe to fruition.
After studying data collected by Nasa’s Hubble Telescope and the Kepler space observatory scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore were able to determine the remaining material from the Big Bang that could create habitable planets, and found that there is 92 per cent of said material.
http://i.imgur.com/kESfuBg.jpg
The Hubble telescope has given astronomers the chance to map star formation within the universe, which shows that it is still creating stars and that just a fraction of the helium and hydrogen to make these has so far been used.
There are an estimated 100 billion more galaxies in the universe, and it is expected that the last star that the universe creates will not be formed for another 100 trillion years.
Co-investigator Molly Peeples said: "There is enough remaining material [after the big bang] to produce even more planets in the future, in the Milky Way and beyond.”