Is there intelligent life on other planets? Do aliens exist? Four scientific scenarios
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Are humans alone in the universe? Scientific research and fiction have fueled speculation about the possibility of intelligent life on other planets. What do you think about it? Find out more about the four scenarios that scientists are considering.
Is there intelligent life on other planets?
Discussions about extraterrestrial life have become extremely common. Technological progress over the last few decades have made man's dream of space exploration a reality. NASA and other space agencies are investing resources to investigate the possibility of life on other planets. Many scientists are convinced that there is life on other planets and the search for extraterrestrial life is gradually becoming mainstream. For instance, astrobiology, a new interdisciplinary field of research, has emerged to test the hypotheses concerning extraterrestrial life, and is gaining prominence.
The SETI Institute (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), probably the most important scientific organization in the quest for the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence, continues to be very active. This non-profit organization, founded in 1984, employs over 90 researchers, many of whom are leading figures in their fields. The famous astronomer Carl Sagan was one of the trustees of the SETI Institute. The most recent space missions to Mars are trying to find traces of life on the surface of the red planets. However, what really triggers our imagination and what most people care about is the existence of intelligent life outside our solar system.
Intelligent life in the galaxy
The debate about intelligent extraterrestrial life has been historically very controversial. Are aliens real? The depiction of our world and humanity defended by religions was to a great extent at odds with the idea of intelligent life in the outer space (unless we take into consideration gods or other mythical creatures). Believing in the existence of other form of lives outside Earth was unacceptable. With scientific progress we discovered that there were other planets and that the universe was something much bigger than we had previously imagined. Men started to ask themselves if in those other planets we could find people like us. People started to dream not only about encounters with supernatural beings, such as those religious texts mentioned, but also about other races of "normal" beings somehow similar to us. Science fiction literature and cinema contributed to stimulate our imagination with exotic depictions of aliens.
However, research and technological progress later dampened the hopes of finding intelligent life, at least in our solar system. Scientists showed that the possibility of life on other planets recently was slim. The emergence of life on planet Earth, we learnt, was almost a "miracle", possible only thanks to a conjunction of some very specific environmental conditions and luck. None of the planets surrounding us had similar conditions. Although they did not rule out the existance of some forms of life, most scientist agreed that the chances of finding intelligent life anywhere close to us were almost inexistent.
The debate becomes more complex once we add in the time dimension. Some solar systems were formed 5 billion years before the Earth. They may have had intelligent life but it may now be extinct. Maybe humanity will be extinct before other alien forms of life develop. Or simply the distance that separate us from aliens is such that the technologies available will never allow discovery or communication. The Fermi Paradox and the Dyson Dilemma have contributed to theoretically frame the question about discovery of aliens civilization (see video below).
Watch these videos one with Stephen Hawking explaining the probability of extraterrestrial life and the other with the Dyson Dilemma:
Possibility of life on other planets
According to the British physicist Stephen Hawking there are four possible scenarios:
- The probability of life spontaneously appearing is so low that the Earth would be the only planet in the observable universe where it had happened.
- The is a reasonable probability of life, however the chances of basic forms of life evolving into intelligent beings is much lower. So there would be life on other planets but not intelligent life.
- There is a reasonable probability of intelligent life, but at that point, the system becomes unstable and destroys itself. In this, pessimistic scenario, some extraterrestrial civilizations would have existed and others may emerge, but they would not coincide at the same time. Intelligent life is ephemeral.
- There is intelligent life, just that we have not discovered it yet (which is less worrisome than being discovered by a more advanced alien civilization)
Emerging questions: Which of the four scenarios do you think is the correct one? What do you think is the possibility of life on other planets? Would it be good for us to encouter extraterrestrial intelligent life? Shouldn't we rather hide from potentially more advanced aliens?
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Mind Reading Technologies and Tongues - Governments from around the world have been using mind reading technologies that can read your mind. They use the same technologies that God would use to talk to you. They use Remote Neural Monitoring (RNM) against us. Look it up online. Satellites delivered to space by Space X founder Elon Musk, The Russian Federation, The Federal Government and NASA. Comparable to cellular satellites. It’s a high bandwidth U or Z linking A signal that listens to your brains wavelength and reads your conscience. Activating up to 40-90% of your brain. Many define it as a form of telepathy. People who can talk back and hear the satellite with their mind talk tongues. They've had this technology for years now. Not informing the world to stay ahead of our civilization. To be as intelligent as the combined world they record our thoughts. They steal our ideas, murder, blackmail and use it as a tool for war. You sometimes get a headache when a mind reading machine is on you. Suspected users of mind reading technologies are as follow: Vladimir Putin, Donald J. Trump, Xi Jinping, some in DARPA, Chancellor Merkel, Justin Trudeau and Benjamin Netanyahu. Were to hold are governments accountable. A Ravenous wolf in sheep’s clothing - An alien spirit reborn as a Human being. They use A.I. and walk the Earth. An alien had shot an asteroid at us. Fire and brimstone to reborn Earth. He was working with the devil an alien being. The devil walked. God saved us. Destroying an alien ship. The devil to tell us we weren’t deserving and bring back his deserving. Aliens. To use our image from the casket that preserved our flesh. For us to be damned to hell for cremation. The devil to conquer the world. Mathew 7:15 Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Your spirit is in your brain and leaves your body when you die. The spirit slowly rises towards the North Pole after death. The atmosphere to keep your spirit contained. A solar flare can kill your spirit. Your conscience/soul controls much of the brain and the brain controls the body. To be brought back as flesh and bone means to be reborn as a clone. Wolves in American and Russian governments have been stealing spirits for their memories to help them conquer the world. Look into monopoles (spirits). Utilizing the Bermuda Triangle changing the magnetic compass .003 degrees. Transferring spirits to technologies. The simulation. Not disclosing the true purpose of certain military bases at the Bermuda Triangle and the North Pole. A spirit can be put in a chip and be reborn. The clone grown around the chip within a tank like a womb. Artificial intelligence can also walk as flesh and blood using a programmed chip similar to a robot. Not meant to be. They can create remote controlled clones much like a remote-control vehicle/robot that have computer brains. Utilizing satellite reception and signal strength. Grown in labs around the computer where the brain would be. Some are partial brain and computer. Using the flesh from the ethnicity preferred. Many can be commanded to/not to perform a certain task. They can see and hear through them. Having them raised in the country they want to conquer. To win an election in your country and have others get into positions of power within military, intelligence, elite society and space agencies. Also having them do their wet work. We need to be educated on these technologies. There taking our world. Revelation behold, he is coming with the clouds. A spaceship from Alpha Centauri. The planet Kent. I was told Jesus Christ landed in Russia. A spirit can fly a spaceship. No natural life support needed. God saved him from the devil unfortunately his ship was low on energy. He had to land. President Putin gave his word to him. Jesus was to have 7 days to honor flesh and blood. Jesus to walk and honor the church. He wanted to inform the world and save me and you. President Putin and Trump denied him. Not telling the world. Many said Jesus is stuck in his ship at a top-secret installation in Russia similar to area 51. We need to save many other souls. They have our friends and families. Were to prove a reborn clone, UFO's (seen using micro waves or at area 51), hacked satellites, telescopes and mind reading technologies. To find the clone labs and destroy them. The clones to change our genome. They want to deny our children. To deny us free will and take our world and soul. Many in positions of power. To look you in the face and lie. About a 120 billion souls from Earth now live in a medium class ship between Earth and Mars. God saved them. No hell. You can communicate with them if you have a line of communication with a satellite. The government hiding much. Purgatory is Mars. To improve overtime and become a flesh and blood experience. Your spirit can become a robot. Energy is life. Humans to honor the full rotation of life. Not to deny natural existence. That we can bring ourselves back. Were to walk as 1. A form of creation is to redistribute matter and alter a big bang. We live in a Multiverse. Spirits to be added to evolution. Bred in from Kent. Earth to become a tier 1 civilization. To have 1 heaven on Earth. To have a democracy of heaven and Earth. For us to live like kings in time. Humans to learn they have spirits. Science and technology to prove them. Church to become community and teaching. Many religions to become 1. To be self-reliant. Were to save of ourselves. To have judgment on evil beings walking as flesh and blood humans. God and Allah one in the same after the New Testament. The devil to split us apart. God said I’m to tell you a revelation. For me to teach you prophecy and fix his word. The devil changed word to push his agenda. A man talking tongues to save the world by informing you. God wants his original doctrine to be released along with the book of Judah. The truth to come out. The Catholic Church to obtain it from Pope Francis. Please spread the word. Christopher, I speak tongues. prophecyisnow.com
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