Humans will find aliens by 2040
Washington: A scientist has claimed that humans will be able to find aliens within the next 25 years.
According to LiveScience, SETI's Seth Shostak says that by 2040, astronomers would have scanned enough of the space so as to detect alien-produced electromagnetic signals
Sostak made the comments during a Feb. 6 discussion at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts symposium at Stanford University.
He said that instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, they would have looked at maybe a million star systems by 2040.
About 44% people think aliens do exist: Survey
There have been many claims and debates about the existence of aliens, also known as ‘extraterrestrial life’ elsewhere in the Universe.
A new survey claims about 44 percent people believe in the existence of aliens and that humans are not alone in the Universe.
The survey also revealed that 45 percent said that the Government had covered up the mysterious activity’s evidence.
While almost 33 percent Brits believed in ghosts, 10 percent said that they had been tackled by a spooky being, reported the Daily star.
A new survey claims about 44 percent people believe in the existence of aliens and that humans are not alone in the Universe.
The survey also revealed that 45 percent said that the Government had covered up the mysterious activity’s evidence.
While almost 33 percent Brits believed in ghosts, 10 percent said that they had been tackled by a spooky being, reported the Daily star.
Also, about quarter of women think that dogs have telepathic powers, and nearly 25 percent people are certain that in future humans would be able to converse with dogs.
More than 1,000 people took part in the poll to launch a new ITV show, Mystery Map, which will be delving into the UK’s top myths and mysteries.
Recently, scientists in England claim to have discovered alien organisms living in the atmosphere, which in turn could help explain how life came to exist on Earth.
While researchers at the University of Sheffield and Buckingham University say that they have scientific proof that alien organisms are living in the atmosphere 16 miles above Earth’s surface, other experts in the field have disagreed with the findings.
With Agency inputs
More than 1,000 people took part in the poll to launch a new ITV show, Mystery Map, which will be delving into the UK’s top myths and mysteries.
Recently, scientists in England claim to have discovered alien organisms living in the atmosphere, which in turn could help explain how life came to exist on Earth.
While researchers at the University of Sheffield and Buckingham University say that they have scientific proof that alien organisms are living in the atmosphere 16 miles above Earth’s surface, other experts in the field have disagreed with the findings.
With Agency inputs
INDIAN CONNECTION
Did aliens visit Odisha in 1947?
Just a couple of months ahead of India's Independence in 1947, an UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) was reported to have landed in Odisha's Nayagrah district.
Rejected as fanciful stories by many, traces of the incident buried under the pages of the country's tumultuous history during the period, have been preserved in the form of traditional palm-leaf engravings by a local artist.
Depicting the long-forgotten stories of 'yantra-purusha' (alien robot-like creatures), pieces of those rare engravings have now been published in 'The Obliterary Journal' (Blaft Publications) in between its collection of comics, street art and illustration.
Rejected as fanciful stories by many, traces of the incident buried under the pages of the country's tumultuous history during the period, have been preserved in the form of traditional palm-leaf engravings by a local artist.
Depicting the long-forgotten stories of 'yantra-purusha' (alien robot-like creatures), pieces of those rare engravings have now been published in 'The Obliterary Journal' (Blaft Publications) in between its collection of comics, street art and illustration.
Award-winning 'pattachitra' artist Pachanana Moharana, who runs a workshop in Puri, had made sketches of the alien visitors and their spacecraft which was claimed to have landed in a hilly area of Nayagarh on May, 31, 1947.
Interestingly, only a month later this incident, a mysterious crash was famously reported near Roswell, New Mexico. In the most well-publicised and most controversial of all "UFO sightings" anywhere in the world, the US Air Force had once claimed to have captured a flying saucer from the spot but contradicted it later on.
Moharana's art works are said to be based on the first- hand accounts of two young people who were invited into the spacecraft and given a sort of tour.
If local tales are to be believed, the book says that after the return of the aliens and the spacecraft's departure, the youths sat with a well-known 'tala pattachitra' artist and gave careful descriptions of the beings they had met inside - a variety of rather anthropomorphic robots, or perhaps, creatures in metal suits.
These descriptions were subsequently passed down to the original artist students, and their students, for 60 years.
One of the palm-leaf engravings shows the 'yantra-purusha' wearing spacesuit with pincer-like hands rising as if offering a blessing.
Hemispherical devices protruding from the head of the aliens are a recurring feature in many of the engravings. Some aliens appear to have ball-shaped hands while others are shown with five-fingered hands.
Edited by Rakesh Khanna, the book rues that the Nayagarh incident remains barely studied or publicised, in India or anywhere else, even as the last few people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses die out.
"The ensuing violent and chaotic, migrations, the heady debate surrounding the future of the new independent nation, the possibility of Adivasi rebellion against the rajas, and the tumultuous years-long political process of integrating the feudary states into the state of Odisha combined to completely eclipse any press that the fantastical reports from the countryside might have otherwise generated," says the book.
The sole exception is a single-paragraph mention in a Berhampur Odiya-language weekly dated June 15, two weeks after the event, in which the anonymous reporter takes a tone fairly dripping with scorn for "the overactive imaginations of the villagers".
However, the 'tala pattachitra' have been sold for decades in small numbers and without fanfare to curious tourists and art collectors outside the famous temples of Puri district.
"As the skeptics would have it, they might be nothing more than fanciful novelty items based on a colourful local tall tale. On the other hand, they might be the most accurate extant record of humanity’s first contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation," says the book.
PTI
Interestingly, only a month later this incident, a mysterious crash was famously reported near Roswell, New Mexico. In the most well-publicised and most controversial of all "UFO sightings" anywhere in the world, the US Air Force had once claimed to have captured a flying saucer from the spot but contradicted it later on.
Moharana's art works are said to be based on the first- hand accounts of two young people who were invited into the spacecraft and given a sort of tour.
If local tales are to be believed, the book says that after the return of the aliens and the spacecraft's departure, the youths sat with a well-known 'tala pattachitra' artist and gave careful descriptions of the beings they had met inside - a variety of rather anthropomorphic robots, or perhaps, creatures in metal suits.
These descriptions were subsequently passed down to the original artist students, and their students, for 60 years.
One of the palm-leaf engravings shows the 'yantra-purusha' wearing spacesuit with pincer-like hands rising as if offering a blessing.
Hemispherical devices protruding from the head of the aliens are a recurring feature in many of the engravings. Some aliens appear to have ball-shaped hands while others are shown with five-fingered hands.
Edited by Rakesh Khanna, the book rues that the Nayagarh incident remains barely studied or publicised, in India or anywhere else, even as the last few people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses die out.
"The ensuing violent and chaotic, migrations, the heady debate surrounding the future of the new independent nation, the possibility of Adivasi rebellion against the rajas, and the tumultuous years-long political process of integrating the feudary states into the state of Odisha combined to completely eclipse any press that the fantastical reports from the countryside might have otherwise generated," says the book.
The sole exception is a single-paragraph mention in a Berhampur Odiya-language weekly dated June 15, two weeks after the event, in which the anonymous reporter takes a tone fairly dripping with scorn for "the overactive imaginations of the villagers".
However, the 'tala pattachitra' have been sold for decades in small numbers and without fanfare to curious tourists and art collectors outside the famous temples of Puri district.
"As the skeptics would have it, they might be nothing more than fanciful novelty items based on a colourful local tall tale. On the other hand, they might be the most accurate extant record of humanity’s first contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation," says the book.
PTI
Encounter with aliens possible this century
We have been hearing so much about aliens that a close encounter may well be possible this century, says a leading scientist urging governments to be prepared for the eventuality.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, physicist and Oxford University professor, told the Euroscience Open Forum conference in Dublin: "I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, maybe even intelligent life, within the next century."
Burnell said we are most likely to find alien life where we find rocky planets with carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmospheres. "If we do suspect there is intelligent life out there, are we going to make ourselves known to them or not?"
"There are interesting questions about who you would tell first - the press, the prime minister, the pope? We should start thinking now," said Burnell. However, she said that even if we do find signs of alien life, it is likely to take decades to talk to them from Earth via radio or lasers, the Daily Mail reports.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, physicist and Oxford University professor, told the Euroscience Open Forum conference in Dublin: "I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, maybe even intelligent life, within the next century."
Burnell said we are most likely to find alien life where we find rocky planets with carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmospheres. "If we do suspect there is intelligent life out there, are we going to make ourselves known to them or not?"
"There are interesting questions about who you would tell first - the press, the prime minister, the pope? We should start thinking now," said Burnell. However, she said that even if we do find signs of alien life, it is likely to take decades to talk to them from Earth via radio or lasers, the Daily Mail reports.
Burnell said: "Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So you are probably talking of conversations that could take 50 or 100 years, just one way."
Previous research has found almost half of Britons believe in little green men. The poll of more than 2,000 men and women for the Royal Society found that 44 percent are of the opinion extra-terrestrial life exists and more than a third of those questioned said we should be actively searching and trying to make contact with ET.
Some say that if we alert hostile aliens to our existence we risk an invasion that could lead to the end of life on Earth. They argue that if ET has the technology to cross space to reach us any defences we have will be all but useless. And Stephen Hawking has warned that aliens may plunder Earth for its resources.
Previous research has found almost half of Britons believe in little green men. The poll of more than 2,000 men and women for the Royal Society found that 44 percent are of the opinion extra-terrestrial life exists and more than a third of those questioned said we should be actively searching and trying to make contact with ET.
Some say that if we alert hostile aliens to our existence we risk an invasion that could lead to the end of life on Earth. They argue that if ET has the technology to cross space to reach us any defences we have will be all but useless. And Stephen Hawking has warned that aliens may plunder Earth for its resources.
UFO & Alien Sightings @2014
There has been something of a glut of UFO and alien sightings over the past few months.
With that in mind, here is our look back at some of the close encounters that have been making the headlines in 2014.
Remember: the truth is out there.
1) UFO spotted hovering over iceberg in eastern Canada
An eyewitness claimed to have spotted a white object spinning and shape-shifting above the sea during an excursion to Salvador, Newfoundland.
2) US Army Air Force fighter jet destroys giant 'alien monster' in desert
A video uploaded to YouTube purports to to show the moment a fighter jet bombs a bizarre, throbbing jellyfish-like object in New Mexico, in the United States.
3) UFO whizzes past CCTV camera on darkened industrial estate
In this video, a bright, white object can be seen hurtling through the air at breakneck pace. It was recorded on a CCTV camera on an industrial site in Prokopyevsky, Russia.
4) UFO attacks Taliban camp in Afghanistan
This clip shows a triangular shaped airborne object open fire on an insurgent position. Explosions can be seen and a huge plume of smoke soon rises up in to the sky.
5) Bizarre 'rotating' object spotted over London
A series of photographs showed a black, rotating object complete with a light in the skies above the capital. It later floated off in the direction of Highbury and Islington.
6) Mysterious UFO 'attempts to communicate with stunned deer'
Stills from a night-time 'deer-cam' showed two parallel beams of light in the background behind a startled deer. Camera owner EDith Shattles said: "It was something I've never seen before."
7) Bizarre triangular objects spotted flying in formation over Texas
Plane spotter Steve Douglass saw the craft alongside two others and took a photo - moments after claiming to have listened in to a conversation between two pilots.
8) Amateur photographer snaps mystery 'aircraft' streaking across the sky in Cornwall
Granddad Michael Potter photographed the 'blazing triangular shape' above the seaside holiday resort of Mounts Bay. He said: "The photo hasn't been photo-shopped or tampered with, so what is it the mysterious object?"
9) Bizarre UFO spotted by robot on surface of MARS
The 'spacecraft complete with vapour trail' was photographed by an unmanned Nasa rover at work on the surface of the Red Planet.
10) UFO spotted above airport causes flights to be cancelled and delayed
The object was spotted on radars at Germany's Bremen Airport but despite a police helicopter being scrambled, nothing was found.
'Aliens that visit Earth won't vaporize us'
Sci-Fi movies like 'Battleship' and 'Men in Black 3' often depict aliens terrorizing our planet.
But veteran ET hunter Jill Tarter has said that science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of Earth-contacting extraterrestrials.
Tarter, who announced Monday that she's retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth, has said that any aliens that visit Earth probably won't want to enslave or vaporize us.
“If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets,” Live Science quoted her as saying in a statement.
But veteran ET hunter Jill Tarter has said that science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of Earth-contacting extraterrestrials.
Tarter, who announced Monday that she's retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth, has said that any aliens that visit Earth probably won't want to enslave or vaporize us.
“If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets,” Live Science quoted her as saying in a statement.
Tarter's confidence in aliens' benign intentions puts her at odds with famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that extraterrestrial civilzations may venture our way to strip-mine our planet for resources.
“While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree,” Tarter, who is stepping down as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. Said.
“If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn't be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either,” she added.
Tarter, other scientists and a variety of artists and entertainers will gather next month in Santa Clara, Calif., to discuss such issues in depth.
“While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree,” Tarter, who is stepping down as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. Said.
“If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn't be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either,” she added.
Tarter, other scientists and a variety of artists and entertainers will gather next month in Santa Clara, Calif., to discuss such issues in depth.
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