The Aliens Are Coming—What If It’s True

Mac's UFO News, By Mac5ize: The likelihood of alien landings will be explored at Life tree Café on Wednesday May 2 at 7:00PM. The Life tree event, titled “The Aliens Are Coming—What If It’s True?” features exclusive filmed interviews with UFO researcher Stanton Friedman and Mutual UFO Network Director Clifford Clift. “If intelligent life from other planets is visiting Earth, that has huge implications,” says Life tree Café representative Craig Cable. “It affects politics, economics, and Extraterrestrial Landings Discussed at Lifetree Café echnology. It may even challenge deeply held religious

"The Aliens Are Coming" Trailer from Lifetree Cafe on Vimeo. convictions.” Life tree participants will examine evidence of alien landings, consider various sides of the debate, and share their own perspectives. Admission to the 60-minute event is free. Snacks and beverages are available. Life tree Café is located at 9000 Cypress Green Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32256. Life tree Café is a place where people gather for conversations about life and faith in a casual coffeehouse-type setting. Questions about Life tree may be directed to George Treiber at (904) Screen Shot On Video, Source: Mac's UFO News

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Aliens may be discovered within 20 years, US astronomers believe

Astronomers and space enthusiasts around the world have long been baffled by the question - is there life beyond Earth? Now, two of the United States' top astronomers are telling the public it is only a matter of 20 years.

Director Dan Werthimer of the Berkeley SETI Research Center and senior astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California in a meeting Wednesday with the science committee of the US House of Representatives opened the discussions by enumerating the efforts of space agencies and SETI in searching for other life forms in neighboring planets and galaxies. Over the past 50 years, multiple attempts have been made to look for signs of alien life beyond Earth. Now scientists have discovered billions of Earth-like planets within our own Milky Way galaxy alone – and they are located within a "habitable" zone suitable for life - Werthimer suggested, "The universe is likely to be teeming with primitive life." "Billions of these planets are Earth-sized and in the 'habitable' or so called 'Goldilocks' zone - not too distant from their host star (too cold), and not too close to their star (too hot). And there are billions of other galaxies outside our Milky Way galaxy - plenty of places where life could emerge and evolve," he said. "At least a half-dozen other worlds (besides Earth) that might have life are in our solar system," Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at SETI Institute, caonfirmed, adding. "The chances of finding it, I think, are good, and if that happens, it’ll happen in the next 20 years, depending on the financing." SETI programs, according to the institute, use the world's largest radio and optical telescopes to search for evidence of advanced civilizations and their technology on distant planets. NASA's Kepler space probe, which is expected to resume operations following the approval of the K2 mission, is even cited by the SETI astronomers as one of the major contributors to the quest. Werthimer said through Kepler's eyes, scientists were able to gaze at approximately two thousand of Milky Way Galaxy's planets and probably trillions of them are out there, outshining even the known number of stars. Werthimer and Shostak also bared new projects, such as the "eavesdropping SETI," in which they would use sophisticated tools to listen to two far-flung planets the moment they aligned to Earth in case their respective life forms plan to exchange messages through radio signals, and the Allen Telescope Array of small dishes situated in California. As noted by the Huffington Post, Werthimer also submitted written testimony to lawmakers, in which he noted that the search for intelligent life also deserved more funding from Congress. Source: The Voice of Russia

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Nasa’s Perseverance to scour Mars for signs of life

A handout photo, released by Nasa, of engineers in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, observe the first driving test for the Perseverance rover late last year.

• By Ivan Couronne, AFP Washington: Nasa’s most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta.
• The interplanetary voyage will last six months.
• Should the SUV-sized vehicle touch down unscathed, it will start collecting and storing rock and soil samples, to be retrieved by a future mission and brought back to Earth in 2031.
• Perseverance follows in the tyre tracks of four rovers before it, all American, which first launched in the late 1990s.
• Together with satellite and surface probes, they have transformed our understanding of Mars, showing that the Red Planet wasn’t always a cold and barren place.
• Instead, it had the ingredients for life as we know it: water, organic compounds and a favourable climate.
• Scientists will examine the samples obtained by Perseverance to look for fossilised bacteria and other microbes to try to confirm if aliens did once live on our neighbouring planet.
• Nasa has been teleworking for months because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the launch calendar for this $2.7bn mission hasn’t been affected.
• “This mission was one of two missions that we protected to make sure that we were going to be able to launch in July,” said Nasa chief Jim Bridestine.
• Earth and Mars are on the same side of the Sun every 26 months, a window that can’t be missed.
• The United States is the only country on the planet to have successfully landed robots on Mars: four landers, which aren’t mobile, and the rovers Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity.
• Of the rovers, only Curiosity is still active, with the others left on the surface after their machinery failed or contact was lost.
• It’s only in the past two decades that it’s been confirmed Mars once had oceans, rivers and lakes.
• Curiosity confirmed the presence of complex organic molecules — but its instruments aren’t capable of concluding that they were created by biological processes.
• The first two landers, Viking 1 and 2, both looked for signs of life as far back as 1976, but haphazardly.
• “At the time the experiment for life detection was considered to be a complete failure,” said G Scott Hubbard, who launched the current Mars exploration programme in the 2000s.
• Nasa then decided to proceed in stages.
• By studying the soil, analysing the molecular composition of rocks, and carrying out satellite observations, geologists and astrobiologists gradually understood where water had flowed, and what areas could have been conducive to life.
• “Understanding where Mars would have been habitable in the past, and what kind of fingerprints of life you’re looking for, was a necessary precursor to then going, at significant expense, to this very well selected spot that would produce these samples,” said Hubbard.
• On February 18, 2021, Perseverance should land in the Jezero Crater, home to an ancient river that fanned out into a lake between 3bn and 4bn years ago, depositing mud, sand and sediment.
• “Jezero is host to one of the best preserved deltas on the surface of Mars,” said Katie Stack Morgan, a member of the science team.
• On Earth, scientists have found the fossilised remains of bacteria billions of years old in similar ancient deltas.
• The six-wheeled rover is 3m long, weighs a ton, has 19 cameras, two microphones and a two-meter-long robotic arm.
• Its most important instruments are two lasers and an X-ray which, when projected on rocks, can analyse their chemical composition and identify possible organic compounds.
• Also on board is the experimental mini-helicopter Ingenuity, which weighs 1.8kg. Nasa hopes it will be the first chopper to take flight on another planet.
• Perseverance probably won’t be able to determine whether a rock has ancient microbes.
• To know for sure, the samples will have to be brought back to Earth where they can be cut into ultra-thin slices.
• “Getting true scientific consensus...that life once existed on Mars, I think that would still require a sample return,” Ken Williford, deputy head of the science project told AFP.
• One thing we shouldn’t expect are the fossilised shells that people find on Earth, he added.
• If life once did exist on Mars, it probably didn’t have time to evolve into more complex organisms before the planet dried up completely. Source: https://www.gulf-times.com

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