Our solar system may contain some form of life as hopes are high on Jupiter’s moon Europa and other few bodies within the system. The ET life that scientists hope to discover shortly may not be intelligent life at all. However, that doesn’t mean there’s no intelligent life somewhere within our galaxy or beyond.
Karl Tate released a new infographic on Space.com detailing our search for alien life starting in 1960 with astronomer Frank Drake’s Project Ozma, which looked to scan our skies for radio signals from other planets.
Along the way, the infographic highlights Drake’s equation for estimating the number of civilizations in the galaxy, which might be between 2 and 280 million. It discusses a mysterious radio signals received in 1977 that then eventually called the “Wow! Signal.” Furthermore, it talks about whether our effort to contact aliens using messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is a good idea. After all, we don’t know who might receive our intergalactic telephone call.
The graphic also features several sci-fi images, such as star-wrapping Dyson spheres from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the habitable ring from 1970 novel “Ringworld,” by Larry Niven. The presentation attempts to illustrate that radio waves may not be the only path to identify extraterrestrial life outside our solar system. Finding structures may also help to meet intelligent beings.
Also presented is the Kardashev scale, a suppositional way of ranking how advanced the beings from other planets might be on a scale from those who can beam radio waves to those who can take advantage of resources in the entire universe.
Lastly, the infographic presents the question – where is everybody? For the answer, check the info below!
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Perhaps you should include the 2001 Chilbolton answer to the 1974 Arecibo message, when claiming to present comprehensive information.
This one article is good for a study, seems so, right?
Or maybe we’re the only ones ….ever
Space is teeming with intelligent races. Drop terms such as extraterrestrial and alien they cloud the issue. Earth technology is inward looking and earthcentric. It looks for and judges its findings through electromagnetic eyes and ears. It will not see or hear them. Space farers have a technology that prevents electromagnetic energy from ‘ seeing’ the technology and whats more makes it behave as if it is not there. This is what any space intelligence has to do to function in space. All this electromagnetic based searching therefore will reveal just more of the same- nothing
WHY GO UP IN SPACE TO LOOK FOR E.T LIFE .WHEN THEY ARE HERE ALREADY ON EARTH LOL ITS A FAR EASIER OPTION WOULDNT YOU THINK . THEY ARE HERE ALREADY AND HIDDEN IN UNDERGROUND BASES IN THE EARTH AND UNDER THE SEA . AS TREATIES WERE
MADE YO KEEP THEM SECRET BY THE WORLD LEADERS IN EXCHANGE FOR TECHNOLOGY . ALL THE PUBLIC HAS TO DO IS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH . 1954 GREADA TREATY ….DWIGHT EISENHOWER / PRESIDENT 1954