Alien Life -Alien Contact -UFOs and Alien Entities and the Evidence

The problem with these things is that they are full of equations and put forward in papers to justify big university fees and grants. And you also have to look at HOW they think we'll make contact.

A passing spacecraft is not governed by statistics dreamt up by some over-paid scientists. Also, 90% of scientists refuse flatly to look at data from, say, UFO sightings which is what science SHOULD be doing rather than leaving it up to con-men and other dubious types (95%).

"It's all ball lightning, grey bogey men and silly abduction stories!" is NOT scientific.

"Leave the whackoes to the psychologists!" is NOT scientific.

If a person -Professor, Doctor -whatever paid for degrees and qualifications- is supposedly involved in something like SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) or exobiology then they have to adopt the scientific approach.  Remember:

A lot of these 'scientists' even ignore information and material from other scientists -some further up the science ladder than them. That is NOT science.

Back in the 1970s I was told again and again that if I was going to look at the claims of UFO landings and Alien Entities, that I needed to look for rare, non-humanoid sightings because all the latest scientific fact and calculations showed that life on other planets would not involve humanoid beings.  But quite gradually, over the years, theories and calculations and theories change or get altered by new "impossible" discoveries busting the nose of science.  That is how it should work.

And now, after decades of searching for those non-humanoid cases, I hear saying change its mind.  Those high strangeness "UFO" cases involving humanoids that Scientists were laughing at should, it seems, not have been so quickly dismissed -but not by me.  I gather the data and try to draw conclusions because I use the Scientific Method.  I never dismiss. 

In 2015, Paul Gallaher of the Independent wrote this piece:

Forget little green men – aliens will look like humans, says Cambridge University evolution expert

The author said extra-terrestrials that resemble human beings should have evolved on some of the many Earth-like planets that have been discovered

Paul Gallagher http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/forget-little-green-men-aliens-will-look-like-humans-says-cambridge-university-evolution-expert-10358164.html

They are often portrayed on screen as little green men with elongated limbs and saucer-like eyes.
From E.T to the X-Files, aliens from outer space have captured our imagination for decades.

Yet a new book from a leading evolutionary biologist argues that if they exist and we ever encountered them, they would look very similar to us.

Professor Simon Conway Morris said extra-terrestrials that resemble human beings should have evolved on at least some of the many Earth-like planets that have been discovered by astronomers.

In his new book published on 2 July, The Runes of Evolution, the University of Cambridge academic builds on the principle of convergent evolution – that different species will independently evolve similar features, with the comparison of the camera eye of an octopus and a human eye a favourite example – and argues it will not just took place on Earth.

“An area of biology which is becoming popular, perhaps too popular, that the possibility evolution is becoming much more predictable than people thought,” he told The Independent. “The book is really trying to persuade the world that evolutionary convergence is completely ubiquitous. Wherever you look you see it.

“The theme is to try and drive the reader, gently of course, into the possibility that the things which we regard as most important, ie cognitive sophistication, large brains, intelligence, tool making, are also convergent. Therefore, in principle, other Earth-like planets should very much end up with the same sort of arrangement.”

Professor Conway Morris, a Fellow at St John’s College, said it follows that plant and animal life on other planets able to support life would also look similar to Earth’s.

He said: “Certainly it’s not the case that every Earth-like planet will have life let alone humanoids. But if you want a sophisticated plant it will look awfully like a flower. If you want a fly there’s only a few ways you can do that. If you want to swim, like a shark, there’s only a few ways you can do that. If you want to invent warm-bloodedness, like birds and mammals, there’s only a few ways to do that.


“The whole business of extra-terrestrial life, Kepler [the most Earth-like planet ever discovered], the search for extra solar planets, and of course the various missions to Mars. This is all going along at such a pace at the moment we can be reasonably sure [any current ideas] might be open to revision in a few years.”

His theory leads on to Enrico Fermi’s famous paradox – why, if aliens do exist, have they not made contact. He admits his book goes “off-piste for a bit of fun” in the last chapter when dealing with this problem.


Professor Conway Morris said: “Fermi’s paradox seems to be coming rather sharply into focus. If I’m on the right track then the likelihood of intelligence is evolving and actively engaging in some sort of transgalatic expeditions doesn’t seem to be completely beyond the realm of possibility.

“What Fermi didn’t know when he asked that famous question was that the number of Earth-like planets is absolutely gigantic now. More problematic is that many of these solar systems far, far pre-date our solar system. They would have, in principle, a major head start of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years.

“The problem is exceedingly acute: we shouldn’t be alone but, famous last words, all the evidence suggests we are. Maybe [aliens] are hiding, the Arthur C Clarke idea, or as Stephen Baxter mischievously suggested we live in a virtual world. I don’t honestly know. My suspicion is we have only begun to scratch at the surface of reality, for want of a better word.”

But here we have Fermi referenced again (I guess every movement needs a Poster Child! ).

You can also check these out:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/g1592/we-asked-7-experts-what-would-aliens-actually-look-like/
and
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/07/05/aliens-are-real-they-will-look-like-humans-claims-cambridge-university-scientist/

 And if you want a big name to add to the list -DR. MICHIO KAKU SAYS "UFOS AND ALIENS ARE REAL!"

This is the point: scientists are people.  They have prejudices and dislikes.  These should be left out of their work but are not.  Prof. J hates Michio Kaku and his "Media darling" status so they'll argue against anything he says.  Prof L hates Prof J so will push anything Kaku says to annoy Prof J.

There are others who, for religious reasons, argue that life beyond Earth is impossible (cus we 'know' a beardy bloke on a cloud created us).  Others refuse to accept life beyond Earth because that would not make Humanity unique.  Others are simply closed-minds who will not consider nor look at anything they do not want to because it is "rubbish".

And we have the scientists who deal with theory.  Fermi can be used to argue pro and con and it has to be remembered that this is all on-paper or on computer theorising because you simply cannot calculate when an extraterrestrial craft will circle or land on Earth let alone when "they" will contact us. These theorists are safe because none of us will be here in 1,500 years!

New Calculation Shows We’ll Make Contact With Aliens in About 1,500 Years

George Dvorsky

 http://gizmodo.com/new-calculation-shows-we-ll-make-contact-with-aliens-in-1782029426?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

 

The disturbing Fermi Paradox suggests we should have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by now, yet we haven’t. By applying a 500-year-old philosophical principle, a Cornell University researcher has shown that the Great Silence is not unexpected—we just need to give it more time.

In a new study that will be presented at an American Astronomical Society meeting later this month, astronomers Even Solomonides and Yervant Terzian combine the Fermi Paradox with the Mediocrity Principle to show that we shouldn’t expect to hear from aliens for another 1,500 years. The reason has to do with the vastness of the Milky Way Galaxy, the time it takes radio signals to propagate through space as well as the apparent “averageness” of humanity in the larger scope of things.

 “It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now,” noted Solomonides in a press statement. “Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone—even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.”

As physicist Enrico Fermi noted nearly a half-century ago, the Milky Way may be huge and full of stars—200 billion give or take a few—but there’s been more than enough time for aliens to have made their presence known in one form or another. Many solutions have been posited to answer this apparent paradox, but nothing conclusive.

 

The mediocrity principle, devised by the 16th century mathematician Copernicus, suggests there’s nothing unusual or special about Earth, humanity, and our place in the cosmos, and that if anything we’re actually quite banal in large scheme of things.

 

“Even our mundane, typical spiral galaxy—not exceptionally large compared to other galaxies—is vast beyond imagination,” said Solomonides. “Those numbers are what make the Fermi Paradox so counterintuitive. We have reached so many stars and planets, surely we should have reached somebody by now, and in turn been reached... this demonstrates why we appear to be alone.”

 

It’s because of this incredible vastness, says Solomonides, that we haven’t received a signal from an alien civilization. Take our situation here on Earth, for example. For the past eight decades, we’ve been broadcasting radio signals, and they’ve been spreading out into space like an expanding bubble. Aliens who receive our radio messages would have to detect them first and then recognize them as being alien. And then they’d have to go about the daunting task of deciphering our signals. That said, Earth’s radio broadcasts have reached every star within about 80 light-years of the sun, reaching about 8,531 stars and possibly as many as 3,555 Earth-like planets.

 

This might sound like a lot, but Solomonides says this is a drop in the bucket. It only represents about 0.125 percent of the planar area of the Milky Way. Logically, these same parameters applies to alien intelligences. So, for us to have been reached by alien signals so far, we would need to be in a rather special, proportionally tiny area of the galaxy. “And we know we’re not special,” write the researchers.

 

Realistically, therefore, we shouldn’t expect to hear from another alien civilization until at least half of the Milky Way has been signaled, which won’t happen for another 1,500 years. That’s not to say we won’t make contact by then, or that if we don’t, aliens don’t exist. The researchers simply claim that it’s “somewhat unlikely that we will not hear anything before that time.”

 

The researchers also took the age of the Milky Way Galaxy into consideration, and calculated that humanity is somewhere in the median 90 percent of the population of galactic species as far as broadcasting history is concerned. This means humanity is not among the first nor last five percent of civilizations to develop radio transmitting technology. Quite pessimistically, they figure that there have been fewer than 210 intelligent communicating civilizations in galactic history, implying that we are among the first to develop radio broadcasting technology. The researchers also figure that the average civilization has been broadcasting for about 80 years, and that the upper limit for radio broadcasting is about 1,600 years.

 

“[We] expect to have heard from an alien civilization when approximately half of the galaxy has been reached,” write the researchers in their study. After applying the Mediocrity Principle to the Drake Equation (an open-ended calculation that seeks to predict the number of radio transmitting alien civilizations in the Galaxy) and other factors, they calculate that alien radio signals would need to propagate out for about 1,580 years before half of the galaxy is reached. Should we not hear from aliens by that time, the researchers say it would be “disconcerting,” and the Fermi Paradox would emerge as a relevant problem.