Hum Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 (Reuters) - Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted on Monday. "The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years," Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. Speaking at an international forum dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, Finkelstein said 10 percent of the known planets circling suns in the galaxy resemble Earth. If water can be found there, then so can life, he said, adding that aliens would most likely resemble humans with two arms, two legs and a head. "They may have different color skin, but even we have that," he said. Finkelstein's institute runs a program launched in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War space race to watch for and beam out radio signals to outer space. "The whole time we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, we have mainly been waiting for messages from space and not the other way," he said. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unix2 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I agree that we may find and meet aliens in the future but when? Don't know and this scientist is just talking bull****. He don't have a magic ball to predict the real deal in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudslag Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Hum but according to you humans have already made contact.....what gives??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 They didn't bother to contact us for thousands of years......why would they bother now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanVP Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I wonder what kind of drugs and vodka those Russian scientists are taking to predict this. I predict that aliens will visit us on 2125....or 3141 or 2718.....or BS date.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Or it could be similar to the Russian solar scientists who predicted a mini ice age due to an extended deep solar minimum - pretty much a Maunder Minimum II - few years ago. Everyone laughed at them too, but not now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell-In-A-Handbasket Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 They said the same thing in the 50's about after 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid Knight Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Earth girls are easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMH Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Isn't he being a bit too exact? 2031 ! We couldn't predict the launch of iPhone 5 or Windows 8, and yet were confident enough to make a prediction for two decade later. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 Isn't he being a bit too exact? 2031 ! We couldn't predict the launch of iPhone 5 or Windows 8, and yet were confident enough to make a prediction for two decade later. ;) "... we will find it within 20 years" ;) And I must say, there is a major difference between finding evidence of life elsewhere, and 'meeting aliens'. News editors can be misleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted June 29, 2011 Member Share Posted June 29, 2011 I don't think we will meet life or find life on other planets. The distances involved are just too great for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudslag Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I don't think we will meet life or find life on other planets. The distances involved are just too great for that. I think you mean intelligent life. We "could" find life on a number of planets and moons in our own system still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Yup, and the odds for at least microbial life on Mars, Ceres or a Jovian moon are looking better all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted June 29, 2011 Member Share Posted June 29, 2011 Yup, and the odds for at least microbial life on Mars, Ceres or a Jovian moon are looking better all the time. I've just gotten hardened in my old age, I guess. I'll believe life on other planets, even those within our own system, when I see it. Good odds don't cut it any more with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slammers Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I don't think we will meet life or find life on other planets. The distances involved are just too great for that. Think of the millions of things we do today that we wouldn't have dreamed possible 100 years ago. Now imagine if were all still alive in say 2-300 years. The distance will probably not seem so large any more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Think of the millions of things we do today that we wouldn't have dreamed possible 100 years ago. Now imagine if were all still alive in say 2-300 years. The distance will probably not seem so large any more... maybe when tech get better and extended our youth age and age overall in the future :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slammers Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Haha my bad. I meant, imagine if humans are still around in 2-300 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brony Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I imagine a bunch of scientific drawing in a blackboard, some bizarre and hard-to-understand equation and concluding "eureka!, we calculated that in 20 years, we will meet with aliens" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shock Doc Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 How you can contribute: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 why wouldn't other civilizations know about addition and substraction etc? it's a basic concept. you need math to develop space travel. otherwise the above is quite funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldier101 Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I think it meant more along the lines of, they wouldn't recognize our symbols for the concepts but would understand the concepts themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 yeah that makes more sense, obviously. it did occur to me post-posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted July 2, 2011 Author Share Posted July 2, 2011 Haha my bad. I meant, imagine if humans are still around in 2-300 years. Oh humans are around until at least 5000 AD. Enjoying that Time Travel stuff. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotoxic_hazard_835 Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Meh, have them send me a postcard when they find the aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zain Adeel Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 leave that... the best thing would be if some alien Probe inters our atmosphere to land :p and find samples of life.. imagine what we would do. Would u want it to do its work or will you get it disabled or destroyed?? to see if its very advanced and calculate how advanced the Aliens might be and if they might overtake us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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