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'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« on: November 08, 2011, 09:23:26 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15635612

'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
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The US government has formally denied that it has any knowledge of contact with extraterrestrial life.

The announcement came as a response to submissions to the We The People website, which promises to address any petition that gains 5,000 signatories.

Two petitions called for disclosure of government information on ETs and an acknowledgement of any contact.

The White House responded that there was "no evidence that any life exists outside our planet".

More than 17,000 citizens joined the two petitions, and the White House has since amended the requirements for response to a minimum of 25,000 signatories.

"The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," wrote space policy expert Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

"In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."

The post went on to outline the efforts that are underway that may add evidence to the debate, namely the space missions Kepler and the Mars Science Laboratory.

Kepler is searching for Earth-like planets around far-flung stars, and the Mars Science Laboratory will sample the Red Planet's geology looking for the building blocks of life - though it will not explicitly look for life itself.

Perhaps the most famous effort in the hunt for alien life is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti), once funded in part by US space agency Nasa, which continues to listen to and look around the cosmos for signs of intelligent civilisations elsewhere.

Mr Larson summarised the numbers game that a hunt for ETs necessarily entails.

"Many scientists and mathematicians have looked... at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth, and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the Universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life," he wrote.

"Many have also noted, however, that the odds of us making contact with any of them - especially any intelligent ones - are extremely small, given the distances involved."

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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2011, 10:09:31 AM »
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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2011, 10:37:23 AM »
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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2011, 10:38:30 AM »
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Are you insinuating that by me posting this thread/article i believe there is no intelligent life elsewhere in the uni?

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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2011, 10:41:00 AM »
Are you insinuating that by me posting this thread/article i believe there is no intelligent life in the Cain campaign?

Yes.  Yes i am.

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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2011, 11:18:42 AM »
Yes.  Yes i am.

I still believe in intelligent life on other planets and that we have been visited by some of these "aliens". 

I posted this for the purpose of debate and discussion.   :)

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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2011, 02:45:11 PM »
I still believe in intelligent life on other planets and that we have been visited by some of these "aliens". 

I posted this for the purpose of debate and discussion.   :)
I thought you didn't believe we have been visited?  Am I remembering wrong or did you change your mind along the way?

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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2011, 04:06:31 PM »
I thought you didn't believe we have been visited?  Am I remembering wrong or did you change your mind along the way?

I don't know.  ...................No, i think i have pretty much maintained that i believe we have been visited.  At least i think that's what i have said. lol

i might have said something like there isn't any concrete evidence indicating it, but even though, i still believe we have. 

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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2011, 04:40:25 AM »
We have been visited by multiple races since the beginning of civilization here.  How do you think we got stealth technology?  Eisenhower allegedly met a grey alien at Camp David and cut a deal. 
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Re: 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2011, 08:10:30 PM »
So the government spends money to try and find et's and then it denies contacting them?? You conspiracy theorists are so retarded