NASA: Discovery of other intelligent life, "Only a matter of time."

[Ricardo Romo]

Mouse made some good points, I think you all are just threaten by him.Why else would you try to silence him?

[DarkReign]

You are an interesting individual, mouse.

[peewee's lovechild]

It's like putting a monetary value on a number like 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000.00

We simply just cant comprehend it. It's just that huge.

This one is easy. It's the U.S. deficit.

[peewee's lovechild]

If there is a habitable planet, I hope that we send uber intelligent people and have them genetically altered to suppress their emotions and rely only on logic to govern themselves.

Plus, if we could genetically alter them to have pointy ears, it would be all sorts of cool.

[baseline bum]

If there is a habitable planet, I hope that we send uber intelligent people and have them genetically altered to suppress their emotions and rely only on logic to govern themselves.

Plus, if we could genetically alter them to have pointy ears, it would be all sorts of cool.

So you don't want women there?

[boutons_deux]

"articles are nothing more than mere speculation"

The Bible, God, life-after-death, Flying Spaghetti Monster are nothing more than speculation.

Or do you have hard-core, repeatable, scientific, rationally accepted/tested data proving those three are true and/or exist?

oh, I'm sorry, was that an unfair question?

[jacobdrj]

The thing about the scientific method is that it forces 2 realities:

1) You must be able to use your imagination (speculate) to come up with testable possibilities.
2) Nothing you imagine exists until you repeatedly and reproducibly prove that it does.

Extra-solar planets were a given in the sci-fi community, and was an axiom. It makes sense based on our understanding of statistics, that if our planet formed around an unremarkable yellow star, that other planets should, at the very least, form around other similarly unremarkable yellow stars. But until 6 years ago, no scientist could actually 'see' an extra-solar planet, and therefore, they did not exist, beyond conjecture. That didn't stop sci-fi fanatic scientists from looking, and they eventually found a way to discover planets, and observe them. Now we know that it is more remarkable to find a star without planets around them than not.
So to with extraterrestrial life. We will keep looking, but until we actual find it, it isn't part of accepted scientific doctrine.