Aliens could be discovered in the next 20 years, say astronomers. - Polidicks

[url]http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/alien-life-discovery-could-happen-within-20-years-140521.htm[/url] [QUOTE]Curious about whether there is life beyond Earth? The answer should come within 20 years, astronomers told members of a Congressional science committee on Wednesday.[URL="http://news.discovery.com/space/videos/could-aliens-be-living-on-exomoons-video.htm"][IMG]http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/videos/dnews-exomoons-large.jpg[/IMG][B][I][IMG]http://static.ddmcdn.com/en-us/news/img/video-icon.png[/IMG] PLAY VIDEO[/I][/B] [/URL] [URL="http://news.discovery.com/space/videos/could-aliens-be-living-on-exomoons-video.htm"]Could Aliens Be Living On Exomoons?[/URL] Astronomers are fascinated by exoplanets and the possibility of life on these worlds. Should they also focus on exomoons? A three-way race is under way to learn if life exists elsewhere in the solar system or beyond, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the California-based SETI Institute, said during a hearing before the House Science and Technology Committee. So far, most efforts -- and funding -- to find extraterrestrial life have focused on Mars and potential life-bearing moons in the outer solar system. [URL="http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/hunting-intelligent-aliens-extreme-seti-130308.htm"]13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens[/URL] “At least a half-dozen other worlds (besides Earth) that might have life are in our solar system. The chances of finding it, I think, are good, and if that happens, it’ll happen in the next 20 years, depending on the financing,” Shostak said.[/QUOTE] Entirely possible IMO. Granted they're looking for funding, but astronomy equipment ain't cheap.

What if we've discovered them but we're so self-centered we don't believe it? Edited: No, really. How many times have we written off planets as being places to support life because they couldn't support humans? That's so fucking narrow-minded.

[QUOTE=pentium;44881262]What if we've discovered them but we're so self-centered we don't believe it?[/QUOTE] What if we are the aliens? [editline]22nd May 2014[/editline] What if the aliens are from our planet and WE'RE from outer space

[img]http://projectlibero.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/i-want-to-believe-poster.jpg[/img]

The discovery of Alien life would be amazing, but also scary. It could potentially change so much. Provided we don't end up as food for the Sclourge Empire.

[QUOTE=Dav0r;44881280][img]http://projectlibero.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/i-want-to-believe-poster.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Started to ban for image macro Noticed you're a moderator :C

[QUOTE=pentium;44881262]What if we've discovered them but we're so self-centered we don't believe it?[/QUOTE] well we have anti-global warming peoples and moon-landing deniers so its entirely plausable that even if discovered we'll have a significant portion of people not believing in it, plus i bet some theology states out there will flat out deny it and insist that aliens cannot exist because man is the center of the whole universe

[quote][img]http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/videos/dnews-exomoons-large.jpg[/img][/quote] That candy looks awful.

[QUOTE=Itszutak;44881276]What if we are the aliens? [editline]22nd May 2014[/editline] What if the aliens are from our planet and WE'RE from outer space[/QUOTE] Slow down now Shyamalan!

[quote] The chances of finding it, I think, are good, and if that happens, it’ll happen in the next 20 years, [B]depending on the financing[/B],”[/quote] gib grant money pls

[QUOTE=pentium;44881262]What if we've discovered them but we're so self-centered we don't believe it?[/QUOTE] That's just stupid, we are constantly looking for alien life as shown here and most of us are hopeful that it exists. Are you assuming the entirety of the human race would just ignore such a discovery? Like we suddenly meet Alien life and just put our fingers in our ears and start screaming. "LALALA NO ALIENS HERE LALALA" "GUESS ALIENS DON'T EXIST AFTER ALL" "NEXT PLANET GUYS"

A lot of that isn't necessarily new information or ideas, but it is interesting we're looking into our own solar system again. I was under the impression we ruled out the other planets as not having advanced species. [QUOTE=Orkel;44881297]Started to ban for image macro Noticed you're a moderator :C[/QUOTE] Fuck sake, I reported him and then saw he was a mod. Glad somebody else got caught up in it too, I don't feel quite as dumb.

[QUOTE=Duskin;44881282]The discovery of Alien life would be amazing, but also scary. It could potentially change so much. Provided we don't end up as food for the Sclourge Empire.[/QUOTE] Yeah someone said something along the lines of "There are two possibilities, we are either alone in the universe or we are not, both are equally terrifying". To be honest though, although the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would be fucking amazing, we still have problems to deal with back at home. [editline]22nd May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=jonu67;44881335]That's just stupid, we are constantly looking for alien life as shown here and most of us are hopeful that it exists. Are you assuming the entirety of the human race would just ignore such a discovery? Like we suddenly meet Alien life and just put our fingers in our ears and start screaming. "LALALA NO ALIENS HERE LALALA" "GUESS ALIENS DON'T EXIST AFTER ALL" "NEXT PLANET GUYS"[/QUOTE] What he means is, we define life as something that can metabolise, grow and reproduce (well, that's what I remember from biology years back), but what if life is something else as well and we just didn't recognize it.

[QUOTE=James xX;44881347]Yeah someone said something along the lines of "There are two possibilities, we are either alone in the universe or we are not, both are equally terrifying". To be honest though, although the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would be fucking amazing, we still have problems to deal with back at home.[/QUOTE] Sir Arthur Charles Clarke btw for that quote, a very great man.

[QUOTE=Coffee;44881319]Slow down now Shyamalan![/QUOTE] the real aliens come from inside in, like, a heart-of-the-cards way, not a chestburster way

4th mod in this thread.

mod party

[QUOTE=Swebonny;44881390]4th mod in this thread.[/QUOTE] Mods are aliens. Confirmed

mods ain't shit #yolo

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;44881408]Mods are aliens. Confirmed[/QUOTE] Well yeah the green names are a dead giveaway

I would love to support them even further by putting radio telescopes on the moon and all. Hell there are still some spots we still [I]need[/I] to check (e.g. Europa)

[QUOTE=Gwoodman;44881415]mods ain't shit #yolo[/QUOTE] mods are sentient alien faeces

[QUOTE=Gwoodman;44881415]mods ain't shit #yolo[/QUOTE] I'm ready to believe in aliens but this theory is way far fetched imo

[QUOTE=James xX;44881347]To be honest though, although the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would be fucking amazing, we still have problems to deal with back at home. [/QUOTE] If anything the discovery of an advanced extraterrestrial lifeform would only increase intraspecial development for Earth and the human race as a whole-- the differences between ethnicities and nations we suffer from right now would likely decrease rapidly. Why? Well, humans work from an ingroup VS outgroup model, for instance an American citizen would have America as an ingroup and Iceland as an outgroup; their ingroup is a group with which they identify themselves and an outgroup is the group with which they do not. Now, logically, the more one does not identify themselves with an outgroup and the more prominent this outgroup is, the more they identify themselves with their particular ingroup, and vice-versa. Now, the differences between these two groups (in this example, America and Iceland) would still exist if we discovered alien life, [i]but[/i] would be of less significance, as our primary ingroup would then center around mankind as a race VS the aliens as a race. Right now we can't look through the lense of our human species as we've got no other intelligent species to differentiate ourselves from throughout it.

If we do find conrete proof that alien life does ecist I don't think it would change things too much, kind of whole Earth from flat to round, the Church and proof-denying imbeciles will live on happily.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44881320]gib grant money pls[/QUOTE] I could be a millionaire within 20 years. You just have to fund me.

[QUOTE=Chief Martini;44881465]If anything the discovery of an extraterrestrial species would only catalyze our interspecial development for Earth and the human race as a whole-- the differences between ethnicities and nations we suffer from right now would likely decrease rapidly. Why? Well, humans work from an ingroup VS outgroup model, for instance an American citizen would have America as an ingroup and Iceland as an outgroup; their ingroup is a group with which they identify themselves and an outgroup is the group with which they do not. Now, logically, the more one does not identify themselves with an outgroup and the more prominent this outgroup is, the more they identify themselves with their particular ingroup, and vice-versa. Now, the differences between these two groups (in this example, America and Iceland) would still exist if we discovered alien life, [i]but[/i] would be of less significance, as our primary ingroup would then center around mankind as a race VS the aliens as a race. Right now we can't look through the lense of our human species as we've got no other intelligent species to differentiate ourselves from throughout it.[/QUOTE] That's how I've always imagined racism or at least human racism would eventually disappear completely, most of the racists would just be really racist/xenophobic towards the aliens. :v:

oh there talking about any kind of animal life ( which is cool. ) but I was thinking a civilization

[QUOTE=jonu67;44881513]That's how I've always imagined racism or at least human racism would eventually disappear completely, most of the racists would just be really racist/xenophobic towards the aliens. :v:[/QUOTE] fucking green people these days go back to your own galaxy you damn immigrants

I wonder how religious figures would respond to intelligent life being found outside of earth.