Man's search for intelligent life in space has somehow developed, he has grown. This has been happening in a concentrated fashion for almost 55 years.
In April 1960, the West Virginia National Radio Astronomical Observatory first turned its cone-shaped ear to the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani to see if their radio communications could be heard. In 1968, Soviet astronomers studied 12 nearby stars that looked like our sun. In fact, over 1,000 individual stars have been reviewed. And the research continues with the giant radio telescope from Arecibo, Puerto Rico and many other countries.
The search for life in space continued on another front with numerous rockets fired at the moon and the planets in our solar system: Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars.
What are the results so far and what are the indications for the future? Is there a reason you hope to wake up one morning to hear the news that surely intelligent beings have been contacted on another planet? Or has the search for life in space given us reason to believe that we are unique on earth and that there is no intelligent life there?
Sometimes the tension is high among scientists using radio telescopes adapted to the universe.
For example, Soviet scientists once picked up a signal from space that was not just random radiation or natural radio noise. He has proven to be from a source controlled by intelligent beings. And they were right. It was a signal from a recently launched American spy satellite.
British astronomers were delighted with a signal they discovered in 1968. It seemed to be pulsating and coming from a distant part of the universe. Could it be a coded signal containing a smart message? In fact, they discovered a pulsar, a giant star that spins rapidly and therefore appears to turn radio signals on and off like a beam shining from a lighthouse. The discovery of pulsars was a major astronomical achievement, and hundreds of them are known today. However, no intelligent message from alien beings has been found.
Therefore, with all the different signals and tones received by the radio telescopes, no messages from intelligent life forms have been detected in space. The New York Times of June 26, 1979 stated: “The lack of character recognition and the lack of evidence of a superior civilization due to widespread colonization has led some researchers to conclude that such civilizations are unlikely to exist. in the Milky Way. to which the land belongs. ""
A basic assumption made by exobiologists trying to find life in space is that there must be billions and billions of planets around other suns; Therefore, intelligent life must have developed in some of them.
But are there other planets? Maybe yes, maybe no. In fact, other stars or suns are so far apart that scientists have been unable to test small planets around them.
David Black of NASA's Ames Research Center said: "There was still no clear evidence of a planet outside of Earth's solar system." And Dr. Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, came to a similar conclusion, although he was already excited about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In 1978 he said: "It seems that our sun, the strange and lonely star surrounded by a family of planets, is probably a rare exception in the star world."
So you can see that it is truly unwarranted for humans to speak so positively about advanced civilizations on distant planets. They haven't even proven that such planets exist, let alone advanced civilizations on them.
Some conclusion... . .
As early as 1976, before the arrival of the Viking probes on Mars, astronomer Clay Sherrod declared: "If there is no life on Mars that looks so much like our planet, it is quite possible that we are alone. . We can be unique in the universe. ""
So are we to conclude that the scientific evidence clearly points in the opposite direction to the possibility of another intelligent life in the universe?
