On Monday, a panel of NASA's space program scientists announced their estimation of finding life outside of our planet within the next twenty years. And even this estimate is a conservative one.
In 2017 NASA plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite and will begin to search the Milky Way for signs of life. They estimate a hundred billion worlds in our galaxy may harbour life.
"Just imagine the moment when we find potential signatures of life," Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said at the announcement. "Imagine the moment when the world wakes up and the human race realizes that its long loneliness in time and space may be over — the possibility we're no longer alone in the universe."
Wow!! Finding, within our own lifetimes, that alien life DOES exist would be exciting..and frightening..and awesome..
NASA astronomer Kevin Hand seconded Mountain's opinion, saying that within the next 20 years, "we will find out we are not alone in the universe," suggesting that extraterrestrial life may exist on Jupiter's moon Europa. The scientists at the panel said NASA's efforts are focusing on finding alien life on planets or stars outside the Earth's solar system.
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Only one question: How will Rick Perry, Hannity and all those RWNJs stop these aliens from "invading"?