Even though most of know that it is impossible for us to be the only advanced(ish) beings in an infinite Universe(s) Science has finally proven that we are very much not alone in the Universe, in fact it is impossible for us to be the only ones!
A New York Times article, by Adam Frank, published in the Sunday Review points out that “the Odds Are Less One in 10 BILLION TRILLION That We Are Not The First” advanced civilizations, and that the possibility of communicating with extraterrestrials and proving the the existence of an alien society can be viewed with the aid of the “Drake Equation”. Here are excerpts from Frank’s outstanding article.
“LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system. The total number of such “exoplanets” confirmed via Kepler and other methods now stands at more than 3,000.
This represents a revolution in planetary knowledge. A decade or so ago the discovery of even a single new exoplanet was big news. Not anymore. Improvements in astronomical observation technology have moved us from retail to wholesale planet discovery. We now know, for example, that every star in the sky likely hosts at least one planet.
But planets are only the beginning of the story. What everyone wants to know is whether any of these worlds has aliens living on it. Does our newfound knowledge of planets bring us any closer to answering that question?
A little bit, actually, yes. In a paper published in the May issue of the journal Astrobiology, the astronomer Woodruff Sullivan and I show that while we do not know if any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations currently exist in our galaxy, we now have enough information to conclude that they almost certainly existed at some point in cosmic history.
Among scientists, the probability of the existence of an alien society with which we might make contact is discussed in terms of something called the Drake equation. In 1961, the National Academy of Sciences asked the astronomer Frank Drake to host a scientific meeting on the possibilities of “interstellar communication.” Since the odds of contact with alien life depended on how many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations existed in the galaxy, Drake identified seven factors on which that number would depend, and incorporated them into an equation.
Just imagine he wonders out there!
You might assume this probability is low, and thus the chances remain small that another technological civilization arose. But what our calculation revealed is that even if this probability is assumed to be extremely low, the odds that we are not the first technological civilization are actually high. Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first.
To give some context for that figure: In previous discussions of the Drake equation, a probability for civilizations to form of one in 10 billion per planet was considered highly pessimistic. According to our finding, even if you grant that level of pessimism, a trillion civilizations still would have appeared over the course of cosmic history.
In other words, given what we now know about the number and orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational.
In science an important step forward can be finding a question that can be answered with the data at hand. Our paper did just this. As for the big question — whether any other civilizations currently exist — we may have to wait a long while for relevant data. But we should not underestimate how far we have come in a short time.”
Basically people, we are VERY much not alone in the Universe and it is now pretty much impossible to think we are! Perhaps this is part of the drip feeding of disclosure!?
U.I.P SUMMARY
There was a time when the human race as a whole believed that we were completely alone in the Universe and that you would be crazy to think anything different – NOW, you would have to be crazy to think that we are alone in the Universe!
What with Sightings on the rise across the planet of UFO’s and Scientists now confirming the existence of Alien Beings and the Universe being infested with life, perhaps this is all part of the big build up to official disclosure, educating the masses that we are very much not alone in space.
If you read in between the lines of the above article it is clear that the odds are now changing as to whether or not the Elite are going to tell us the Truth about the ET’s – Thanks to people like all of us, we are all dragging the truth out kicking and screaming!
Wonder what other announcements will be coming out in 2017?
MWV
