1- Astronomers Margaret Turbull and Jill Tarter of Carnegies Institution in Washington D.C, have compiled a list of 17,129 nearby stars most likely to have planets that could support complex life.2-According to Turbull,Stars must be a least 3 billion years old(to allow life enough time to evolve) and have low mass and high levels of iron(metal are needed to form rocky,Earth-like-Planets)
3-Leading the list is Epsilon Indi A,a dim orange star just 11.8 light-years away, in our local corner of the milky way.
4-What's the frequency,Frank?
Astronomer Frank Drake make the first scientific attempt to contact alien beings in 1960. When he used on 85-foot radio dist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia to listen for signals from two-nearby sunlike stars.
5-You haven't heard about it because his search turned up zilch.
6-The more sophisticated efforts of the SETI Institude In Mountain View California,haven't fared any better.Since 1995,this privately finded project has scanned more than 1,000 stars,at a cost of $5 million year,for alien radio squeaks.
7-Seth Shostak,Senior astronomer at SETI, for reasons best known to him,reckeons that the 350_antenna Allen Telescope Array,now being built,"will trip across a signal by the year 2025"
8-Download software from the Seti@home project(setiatthome.berkeley.edu)to sift foe alien signals on your home pc.187,000 other people have.
9-Most likely spots for alien life in our solar system:underground refuged on Mars,hot spots on Saturns moon Enceladus (whose south pole is dotted with geysers).and Jupiter's moons Europe and calles to (whose icy cnests may cornceal vast underlying oceans of water)
10-Perhaps the earliest UFO sighting occured in 1450 B.C.,when Egyptian saw bright circles of light in the sky.Some UFO obsessives interpret.
Ezekiel:1 in the bible as a UFO report.
11- In 1957 Antonio Villas Boas a Brazilian farmer,reported that he was abducted by barking aliens who covered him in gel and mated with him.
12-Thus setting a precedent for future close encounters ; In a 2003 Havard University study,7 or 10 delf-professed abductees stated under hypnosis that they had been used foe breeding or sexual experiment by their alien captors.
13-Allan Cheyne, a psychologist at the University of Waterloo in Ontorio,says that those who believe they've been abducted by aliens are often prone to experiencing sleep paralysis.
14-In Newfoundland,sleep paralysis is called the"old hag" because it is associated with visions of an elderly woman crouching on the sleeper's chest.In the west indies the phenomenon is said to occur when a ghost baby bounces on the snoozer.
15-In the space,no one can hear you sneeze:Stereococcus mitis,a bacterilem taht infects the nose and throat,was in advertently sent to the moon aboard the surveyor 3 probe.The bugs were still alive when Apollo 12 astronaust retrieved the probe's camera two and a half years later.
16-Perhaps we scared them off:Scientist first tried describe humans to alien in 1972, when Carls Sagan and Frank Drake designed a plaque with a naked man and woman on oit for pioneer 10 spacecraft.
17-Then we sent the soundtrack:The two Voyager probes,launched in 1977,included a 12 inch gold-plated record carrying whale calls,greetings in 55 human languages,and a Bulgarian folk song.
18-Just in a case,NASA included a phonograph stylus and playing instructions.
19-On september 30,2006,the french center for National Space Studies beamed cosmic connexion,a tv program aimed at extra terrestrials,at a sunlike star called Errai 45 light-years from earth.
20-The video should reach them in 2051.
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