![]() People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.There will be “strong indications” of alien life within a decade and “definite evidence” of it within 20 to 30 years, NASA’s chief scientist has said. Maybe the fictional Agent Kay from the Men In Black film series had the correct assessment when they explained why a civilization full of rational people wouldn’t be able to accept the knowledge that aliens were real and some of them were dangerous: “A person is smart. If we happen across evidence for the existence of space microbes on a distant planet that’s one thing, but what if the US government stumbles across an evil alien armada? It’s also worth mentioning, as any fan of science fiction knows, that full disclosure might not be the best policy when it comes to informing the general public. We’d like to believe that the US government would immediately inform the public if, as a hypothetical example, the James Webb space telescope manages to pick up definitive evidence of active alien technology on a nearby habitable planet.īut, considering that same government withheld official documentation of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP, also known as UFOs) from the public for decades before finally confirming their existence in 2020, it’s worth worrying about whether NASA would even let us know if it does discover evidence for alien life. ![]() Instead, it would be more interesting to see what NASA’s standard operating procedures for direct face-to-face encounters with advanced intelligent alien life would look like. That sounds a lot like typical science reporting, however, so it’s unlikely the general public’s going to be biting its nails with each NASA update wondering if we’re at a “five” or a “six” on the progressive alien biology scale. ![]() The researchers propose a progressive system where evidence would be presented on a scale of one through seven, starting with the detection of a biological signal and ending with definitive confirmation of the presence of alien biology. The magnitude of the question of whether we are alone in the Universe, and the public interest therein, opens the possibility that results may be taken to imply more than the observations support, or than the observers intend. With this privileged potential comes responsibility. Our generation could realistically be the one to discover evidence of life beyond Earth. Per the NASA document outlining the request: But the aliens one might have the biggest immediate impact on civilization.įor that very reason, a team of scientists working at NASA have proposed drafting a framework by which the US government should go about informing the public on its findings in the event the space agency discovers evidence for extraterrestrial life. Scientists hope it’ll help us gaze back in time to the universe’s origin, explain the mysteries of dark matter, and find definitive proof of ET.Įach of those results would be among the greatest scientific accomplishments in human history. The recent launch of the James Webb space telescope has the science world abuzz with dreams of cosmic breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe.
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