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Yes, There Is Life in Space—Deal With It
Cosmic biology may not just be possible, but inevitable
No one has ever discovered life in space, and given the enormity of the universe and our tiny, modest place in it, it’s entirely possible no one will—either in our lifetimes or for many lifetimes to come. But never mind, because life is out there—indeed, it’s everywhere, simply because chemically and mathematically it has to be there.
That’s increasingly the view of investigators studying the science of exobiology—also known as astrobiology, also known as just plain ET. There’s good reason for that kind of investigatory optimism. Water, we now know, is everywhere in the cosmos, on planets and moons, in the matrix of asteroids, swirling through interstellar space itself. Hydrocarbons—the basic molecular stuff of life—are ubiquitous too, as are more complex amino acids.
And while we once knew of only the eight planets in our own solar system, in just the past 20 years, scientists have discovered thousands more orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Our sun is just one of those 300 billion stars, and there are perhaps 100 billion more galaxies in the universe. That’s not a sample group of infinity, but it’s a huge one all the same. If biological chemistry is everywhere and the planets on which it could play out are as well, there’s little reason to believe the magic would happen only on Earth.
“The universe is hardwired to be an organic chemist,” Scott Sandford, an astrobiologist at the NASA Ames Research Center near Silicon Valley, told me for a story in a recent issue of TIME. “It’s not a very clean or tidy one, but it has really big beakers and plenty of time.”
Not everyone agrees with that view, but like it or not, it’s becoming—if it hasn’t already become—the majority position.
LINK: http://time.com/4234106/life-in-space/
Cosmic biology may not just be possible, but inevitable
No one has ever discovered life in space, and given the enormity of the universe and our tiny, modest place in it, it’s entirely possible no one will—either in our lifetimes or for many lifetimes to come. But never mind, because life is out there—indeed, it’s everywhere, simply because chemically and mathematically it has to be there.
That’s increasingly the view of investigators studying the science of exobiology—also known as astrobiology, also known as just plain ET. There’s good reason for that kind of investigatory optimism. Water, we now know, is everywhere in the cosmos, on planets and moons, in the matrix of asteroids, swirling through interstellar space itself. Hydrocarbons—the basic molecular stuff of life—are ubiquitous too, as are more complex amino acids.
And while we once knew of only the eight planets in our own solar system, in just the past 20 years, scientists have discovered thousands more orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Our sun is just one of those 300 billion stars, and there are perhaps 100 billion more galaxies in the universe. That’s not a sample group of infinity, but it’s a huge one all the same. If biological chemistry is everywhere and the planets on which it could play out are as well, there’s little reason to believe the magic would happen only on Earth.
“The universe is hardwired to be an organic chemist,” Scott Sandford, an astrobiologist at the NASA Ames Research Center near Silicon Valley, told me for a story in a recent issue of TIME. “It’s not a very clean or tidy one, but it has really big beakers and plenty of time.”
Not everyone agrees with that view, but like it or not, it’s becoming—if it hasn’t already become—the majority position.
LINK: http://time.com/4234106/life-in-space/
Aaron Rodgers saw a UFO.
He believes it, and it seems near impossible for anyone who hears his super-detailed story not to believe it as well.
"I saw an unidentified flying object in the sky in New Jersey in 2005," the Green Bay Packers quarterback told host Pete Holmes on the "You Made It Weird" podcast this week.
Back then, Rodgers had just finished his playing career at California and was getting ready to enter the NFL draft. One night while staying with the family of college teammate Steve Levy, Rodgers and two others were drawn outside by an alarm they heard coming from a nearby nuclear plant.
That's when they saw something in the sky.
“It was a large orange, left-to-right-moving object," Rodgers said. "Because of the overcast nature of the night and the snow, you couldn’t make out — it was kind of behind the clouds we were seeing, but it was definitively large, moving from left to right. It was me, Steve and his brother that saw it. And it goes out of sight and we look at each other and go ‘What in the ... was that?'”
About 30 seconds later, Rogers said, they heard what he described as the unmistakable sound of four fighter jets flying by.
"If you know anything about UFO sightings or if you've done research you know that a lot of times two things are connected to UFO sightings," Rodgers said. "One is the presence of fighter jets. And two is there's a lot of sightings around nuclear power plants."
And to top it all off, Rodgers said, there was never any media coverage of what they witnessed that night.
"Nothing," Rodgers said.
LINK: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-aaron-rodgers-ufo-20160324-story.html
He believes it, and it seems near impossible for anyone who hears his super-detailed story not to believe it as well.
"I saw an unidentified flying object in the sky in New Jersey in 2005," the Green Bay Packers quarterback told host Pete Holmes on the "You Made It Weird" podcast this week.
Back then, Rodgers had just finished his playing career at California and was getting ready to enter the NFL draft. One night while staying with the family of college teammate Steve Levy, Rodgers and two others were drawn outside by an alarm they heard coming from a nearby nuclear plant.
That's when they saw something in the sky.
“It was a large orange, left-to-right-moving object," Rodgers said. "Because of the overcast nature of the night and the snow, you couldn’t make out — it was kind of behind the clouds we were seeing, but it was definitively large, moving from left to right. It was me, Steve and his brother that saw it. And it goes out of sight and we look at each other and go ‘What in the ... was that?'”
About 30 seconds later, Rogers said, they heard what he described as the unmistakable sound of four fighter jets flying by.
"If you know anything about UFO sightings or if you've done research you know that a lot of times two things are connected to UFO sightings," Rodgers said. "One is the presence of fighter jets. And two is there's a lot of sightings around nuclear power plants."
And to top it all off, Rodgers said, there was never any media coverage of what they witnessed that night.
"Nothing," Rodgers said.
LINK: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-aaron-rodgers-ufo-20160324-story.html
Looks like swamp gas or ball lightning.
Fox Mulder is no longer with the FBI.
Fox Mulder is no longer with the FBI.
I think my brother in law was abducted by aliens,but unfortunately, they brought him back!
