Space and its wonders: Alien life forms
SETI program
One of the actions human population decided to undertake to find some alien civilizations is SETI program. SETI means Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and is considered a group of actions supposed to give an answer to the question people have been asking themselves since they discovered first planets: Do alien civilizations exist and where they are? SETI programs search for electromagnetic transmissions from other planets. Unfortunately, so far no discovery concerning alien civilizations has been made.
Numbers
In 1961 Dr. Frank Drake devised the Drake equation. Using this formula, he estimated that there are approx. 10.000 planets containing intelligent life with possible capability of communicating Earth. Thanks to Hubble Space Telescope, it’s estimated that there are over 125 billion galaxies in the universe. Around 10% of all the sun-like stars have systems of planets, so that gives us 6.25 x 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 stars. If at least 1 billion of them have one planet in their system capable of supporting life then there are 6.25 billion life supporting solar systems in the universe (6.250.000.000 so that you can see clearly).
Hypotheses about aliens
There are probably billions of videos, pictures and other more or less real “proofs” for the aliens existence. So far none of these resulted in the confirmed contact with the extra-terrestrial civilization. There are very many hypotheses about aliens:
- Extraterrestial hypothesis – UFO is a spacecraft sent to Earth from some advanced civilization.
- Interdimensional hypothesis – UFO’s are objects that come from other dimensions
- Psychosocial hypothesis – UFO is a result of misperception mechanisms and is strongly amplified, influenced by pop culture
- Natural hypothesis – UFO is just a natural phenomena that is still unknown
- Military cover up hypothesis – UFO is just an another, new type of super secret aircraft
So called physical evidence
Some people claim that some UFO leaves proof of its existence, for example:
- some UFO cases describe situations where many people, that never met each other, experienced the same event, in the same time. For example radar contact and tracking from multiple sites.
- photographic evidence, videos.
- landing sites, having peculiar properties. Claims that ground has been burned/broken, weird magnetic and radiation anomalies, metallic remains.
- cattle mutilation cases, also considered by some as a proof.
- biological effects on plants such as growth disorder or blown-out stem nodes, usually associated with crop circle cases.
- electromagnetic interference, causing weapons and communication systems failures
UFO in Poland
We include the link below, just to show you that UFO appears even in our own country. Link leads to the report from the UFO encounter that took place in year 1995.
http://ufo.internauci.pl/pliki/38.pdf
UFO pictures
http://www.ufoevidence.org/Newsite/Pics/cropcircle2.jpg
http://www.nationalufocenter.com/artman/uploads/hawaiikanohebay21oct04.jpg
UFO videos
http://www.maxior.pl/film/76609/Ufo_video
http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid=-3726335445296508595# (2 hours video, so don’t even try to tell us you’re patient enough to watch all of it)
Aliens in our culture
It’s not really necessary to even mention anything about it. It’s impossible to live on Earth and never hear about UFO, read a book about it or see a movie with some aliens In it. Alien civilizations and inter-stellar travels will always be a subject, at least till humans actually contact some other intelligent beings from other planet. For now, we need to satisfy our curiosity with fiction. Below, we present some of the most interesting and recent alien based creations.
Pixar video – Lifted (WARNING - funny stuff): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWS5kGP2pSQ
Avatar movie: http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html
Star Trek movie - http://www.startrekmovie.com/
Discussion topics
1. Is UFO real or maybe it’s just a mass hallucination, a result of humans loneliness in the universe?
2. Why do you think aliens are often shown as a humanoid type of beings (2 legs, 2 arms, breathing air, just having a blue skin color or some weird ears etc.)? Is this a result of lack of imagination of the creators or maybe something else?
3. Would you like to live in the world where you can travel from one planet to another, meet other intelligent beings and coexist with them? Do you think it’s even possible, when some people are still racist?
4. Do you believe any of the UFO proof presented at any time in the world? If so, please explain why. What’s so convincing in it?
1)
ReplyDeleteWhile there might be other intelligent species far away in the universe I don't believe in any UFO stories. Humans simply like to believe in supernatural things since the beginning of the mankind, now there are stories about UFO, in middle ages there were stories about dragons etc...
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That's interesting question, in my opinion it just easier for us to imagine things similar to the ones we already know.
3)
Well it's hard to say, it depends how this world would look like. History shows that when you try to create an utopia it usually has bad results.
4)
For me it's just a human imagination.
1) I think it's almost sure that we're not the only living planet in the universe. "(...)if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."
ReplyDelete2) Like Michał said, it's natural for us to imagine that they look similar. And maybe we like to think that aliens, who we usually imagine as very intelligent, are humans future form.
3)Probably we would stop hating each other because of skin color or nationality, but we start because of origin planet.
4) No, I don't belive. Some people want to belive that they have a proof, and some of them just lie.
Case of UFO is again one the biggest mysteries of the universe. Despite that personally I will believe in alien life forms only when I see them, somewhere there just must exist some kind of life. There are many photos and so cold evidences that UFO maniacs adduce on but such images can be more than easily prepared even one home pc. That is why I don’t believe that any of the mentioned ever occurred.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it would be strange to be the only ones in the universe. It is so huge that I find it impossible. Unfortunately, it will be never given to me, to obtain knowledge about aliens. I don't believe anyone who claims that he has seen aliens, although I have rather no good reasons not to trust them. I think that it is just an easy way of becoming popular for a moment. And what about their look? Again, universe is so huge that I find it possible for them to look similar to us... somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI can say nothing about coexistence of us and them, it is too surreal :)
1) Aliens exists
ReplyDelete2) In my opinion they are something like creatures in "Alien" film - predators with special facilities to live in hard conditions. I see them more similar to animals rather than humans.
3) It would be really cool
4) No, I don't believe
1. If the Universe is infinite somewhere in cosmic space Aliens exists.
ReplyDelete2. Becouse nobody not see "real" alien yet...
3. No, In my opinion humans cant peaceful coexist with other intelligent. But travel from one planet to another sounds good.
4. I dont believe.
1) I Think many people think if the whole universe is so big there must exist such a civilization similar to ours.
ReplyDelete2) I think movies was the path for "visualisation" of aliens. Then people just fallowed the trend.
3) I wish... :)
4) I believe we're not alone. Just this year a banch of scientists announced that in 2010 they'll find a planet in the universe similar to earth ! (will see :) )