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Extraterrestrial Life February 13, 2009

People in the first half of 19th century were so fond of alien and other science-fiction stories. Many authors wrote books about things which hadn’t invented, e.g. air conditioner, submarine, alien attack, etc. Those writers’ books are still famous until current times, particularly when the rumours of E.T. – extraterrestrial life – are widely exaggerated.

E.T. or Extraterrestrial Life is a form of living which comes from outer space. In the latest two decades, people have confirmed the evidences of E.T.’s existence, e.g. implausible patterns in sparsely-populated areas, abduction, slaugther, etc. Some groups of scientists doubt this news and the idea of extraterrestrial life, but a considerable group of them believe and hold researches to prove the truth.

It is widely known that life on Earth is mainly composed by carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen (in the order of abundance) atoms. Biologists believe that, with enough time provided, those materials – particularly carbon – can evolve into living organisms by certain biochemical processes. Astronomers are supported by Frank Drake’s theory of the possible amount of Earth-like planets out there. Though this theory is somewhat experimental, it offers us a challenge. The geometric pattern drawn on some fields in different places in the world shows us how civilized and advanced is their culture. Cattle slaughter, human abduction, and strange sounds coming from deserted places are just another examples of other intelligence’s existence.

Religious groups consider the appearance of aliens and UFOs to be the representation of advanced life. It is the model of human’s future life in other dimension, nothing more. They tend to refute this fact because theu believe that nothing originates from minerals. Even mineral itself originates from god. The idea of extraterrestrial life is obviously crossing conventional law of science, as well. The impossibility of interstellar travel is one of the main arguments. Outerspace is an impassable medium that lacks of air and extreme temperature. Besides, the distance between solar systems are thousands lightyears, which means hundreds of centuries on Earth. Although signals from UFO and aliens have been received by our observers, those signals are probably sent in the last century, considering the fact that waves from far away planets should travel through a difficult medium. Furthermore, some people argue that aliens and other forms of extraterrestrial intelligence can cause our doomsday. They’ve come around us, slaugthered and murdered people and other creatures, and perhaps they have such a bad intentions. They come here to study how humanity works, analyze its weaknesses, and observe its development. Someday they may attack us.

In brief, pros and cons of this issue is just another challenge for humanity to prove. Since the ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’ (Frank Drake), we should carry out more experiments about this to find the truth. But, do you really believe that people’s doomsday is caused by an attack from the aliens, just like H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds?