Alien lifeforms: Contact made! This is little surprise to any of us here. :)
Posted by Jason Moss on November 3, 2010 at 12:18pm
We are not alone. The name is Gliese 581g, a planet recently declared to
be not only habitable, but one hundred per cent certain to host life. Now, the
latest discovery: an alien
communications signal is being sent from this very
same location in
space. Scientists are hardly surprised...
Scientists estimate that the Milky Way galaxy alone contains some 200
billion stars and if between ten to twenty per cent of these hold life,
that
means some 40 billion habitable planets in this galaxy alone.
The
US-based investigator and writer, Terrence Aym*, claims in his
article
"Scientist declares alien signal sent from extrasolar planet
Gliese
581g" that a reputable Australian astrophysicist, Dr. Ragbir
Bhathal,
from the University of Western Sydney, has stated that "the light
pulses
he detected in December 2008 are from the region of space where
the
extrasolar planet Gliese 581g orbits a red dwarf star".
Aym points out that Professor Steven Vogt
(Professor of astronomy and
astrophysics at the University of California) had
already declared that Gliese 581g was inside the
habitable zone of a star and
claimed that "given the ubiquity and
propensity of life to flourish wherever
it can, I would say, my own
personal feeling is that the chances of life on
this planet are 100 per
cent".
Dr. Bhatal is a member of the Australian chapter of SETI (Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), which is
a non-profit making scientific
organization conducting
research, exploration and education in the area
of
astrobiology/exobiology (the study of life forms in space). On
finding
the rare pulse of energy in December 2008, he declared "Looking at
one
of the objects, we found this signal. We found this very sharp
signal,
sort of a laser lookalike thing which is the sort of thing we're
looking
for - a very sharp spike. And that is what we found".
Although there are sceptics in the scientific
community, among them SETI pioneer Prof. Frank Drake,
former director of the
Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, who states he
needs to see evidence
first, the signal is puzzling. For a start, the
signal was found around two
years before its origin - the planet Gliese
581g and before it was discovered
that the star Gliese 581 was orbited
by planets (presented to the National
Science Foundation in the USA by
professors Vogt and Paul Butler (Carnegie
Institution, Washington) in
September 2010.
Secondly, it is an extremely unusual signal
coming from a habitable planet around
twice the size of Earth. One fact is
staring us in the face and becomes more and more obvious,
surpassing the
apparent: We are not alone.
Original article by Terrence Aym
"Scientist declares alien signal sent from extrasolar planet Gliese 581g"
http://www.helium.com/items/1980008-scientist-declares-alien-signal...
Timofei Belov
Pravda.Ru
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/12-10-2010/115338-alien_cont...
Heres the link, Russians once again are ahead of us Americans. Our government had better
get on the ball or they will be left behind, its just that simple.
Jason Moss