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> Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery. Not everyone (case in point: me).
by garmaine 8y ago
> Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery.
Not everyone (case in point: me). We're not all obsessed with the search for ET.
- sandworm101 8y agoBut if you did find something, you wouldnt drop everything else? Finding any serious evidence of ET would bring the entire scientific world to a hault.
- garmaine 8y agoIntelligent aliens? Yes, of course. But there are many lines of evidence which makes it extraordinarily unlikely and almost no one is looking for little green men out there. What people are searching for, and orienting our exploration programmes around, is the possibility of a second genesis and non-intelligent, probably microbial life on other worlds. That, frankly, is uninteresting to me as both a humanist and a scientist, compared with what we could be working on instead. It’s a gigantic, PR driven self-perpetuating hype machine that eats up budget and resources that could have been put to better uses.
- garmaine 8y agoAsked for my opinion, I gave it, and get down voted.. not expecting upvotes, but why the down votes?