SCIENTISTS SEEK ALIEN LIFE ON EARTH

Forget outer space — extraterrestrial life may be "right under our noses," a top physicist says. (I did not write that.)

This is BIG! Right up my alley so to speak. I know you think I make this stuff up, (Justifiably so...usually), BUT THIS IS REAL! High Diddle Diddle the Cow Jumped Over the Moon! And what did she bring back?

There is so much written here I’m going to have a tough time breaking it down. Just remember it comes from experts.

LONDON – For decades, scientists have scanned the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life. Perhaps they should have looked closer to home. Variant life forms — most likely tiny microbes — could still be hanging around "right under or noses — or even in our noses," an award winning Arizona State University physicist, told a group of scientists.

"How do we know all life on earth descended from a single origin?" he said, speaking at London's Royal Society, which serves as Britain's academy of sciences. "We've just scratched the surface of the microbial world."

The idea that alien micro-organisms could be hiding on Earth has been discussed for a while, according to The Director of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a U.S. project that listens for signals from civilizations based around distant stars.

Is that outrageous or what? Not only do we eavesdrop on our own citizens but we listen in on deep dark space critters. I suppose if they have some form of marriage ritual we may be able to hear them arguing? I wonder what they, (The listeners) would do if they heard, “Tomorrow we attack the Earth.” Anybody know a way we could feed that into their feed?

The Director said several of the scientists involved in the project were interested in pursuing the notion, "Are Aliens Among Us?"

So far, there's no answer.

No answer - means, No “No!” The door is wide open. What if they came down as Mexicans? We couldn’t even do anything to them without jeopardizing double jeopardy. They could pick fruits and vegetables and inject all sorts of microorganisms. I shirk to think what they could do working in fast food restaurants.

The Director suggested that the only way to prove an organism wasn't "life, as we know it" was if it were built using exotic elements which no other form of life had. Such organisms have yet to be found. However less than 1 percent of all the world's bacteria had been comprehensively studied

Now here’s a Real brain...an astrobiologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said the notion of alien life on Earth was "an interesting theoretical idea" but one that would be impossible to put odds on because "we have no idea what we're looking for."

He added that, if such life forms existed, humans would have little to fear, as their different biochemistry would tend to mitigate against infection or disease.

DUH! He says humans would have nothing to fear, right after admitting, “We have no idea what we’re looking for.”

The call for alien-hunting scientists to look to their own backyards came as a pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial life in outer space told the conference the job appears to be more difficult than previously thought.

A group from AAAA who conducted the first organized search for alien radio signals in 1960, said that the Earth — which used to pump out a loud tangle of radio waves, television signals, and other radiation — has been steadily getting quieter as its communications technology improves. They cited the switch from analogue to digital television — which uses a far weaker signal — and the fact that much more communications traffic is now relayed by satellites and fiber optic cables, limiting its leakage into outer space.

Scientists at SETI, (Whatever that is?), were excited by the possibility of using lasers to send super-bright flashes of light into space for a tiny fraction of a second. The flashes could theoretically be seen by an advanced civilization up to 1,000 light years away and beyond.

Professor Penwose presumed that, “Knowing what we know, and eliminating what we don’t know, which in reality is automatically eliminated, we must conclude that tiny organisms previously mentioned as neither here nor not, would be incapable of constructing a capable craft for travel through space. Therefore they would be limited to hitching a ride from an existing vessel.

One cold hard fact is we have been roundtrip to nowhere but The Moon. Therefore, THAT is an elementary judgment of the origin of any microbes here on Earth.

Shooting laser beams blindly throughout the cosmos might seem like a good idea but would we not also foster the possibility of burning out entire civilizations and even cutting planets in half?
In any event I believe they would appear much brighter if we sent them at night.

In regards to the matter of the weaker signals being shot into space -- The entire issue is of little or no significance due to another elementary deduction -- Unless the aliens spoke our language they would not have understood the television programs anyway.

On the other hand, in the event of alien civilizations more advanced than ours, we must assume they already have HD Digital.”

Penwose Out
By George