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For anyone else watch the aliens 2011-04-27 13:09:02
American scientists are forced to abandon the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The main telescope, operating within the framework of SETI, goes into "sleep state" due to lack of funding according to SETI, the service requires ATA (vsego-to!), about 1.5 million dollars a year, and at least 1 million is needed to cover the costs of research projects SETI.
Radio telescope Allen, Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in California, scanning the "cosmic ether" in the search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence, translated into standby mode due to lack of funding, RIA Novosti reported citing the press service of the SETI Institute.
"Starting this week, the telescope was moved to the ATA sleep due to lack of funding Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO), where he is," - said in a letter to the executive director of SETI Institute Tom Pearson (Tom Pierson), dated April 22.
"Unfortunately, the current situation with the federal budget is very complex and need to seek new solutions to the problem. The amount of funding has been reduced by approximately 90%," - said in the letter.
As participants of the project, the telescope ATA is the best available tools for humanity to search for signals from thousands of planets that are orbiting telescope NASA discovered "Kepler." Therefore, high priority calls institution collecting $ 5 million for the project "Worlds of Kepler," in which the 2013 study assumed 1.2 thousand planetary systems discovered by telescope.
Little green men are gone from prosecution
Humanity does not cease to agitate the question of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. Inquiring minds the human race can not bear the thought of loneliness of man in space worlds. Indeed, in a galaxy of ten to a hundred alien civilizations, British scientists have found as a result of a study on the existence of life in the universe.
Researchers from the British Academy of Sciences has offered to create a special agency, UN agencies, which will prepare for a meeting with the aliens.
However, scientists assure that these measures do not bear any risk to humanity, as described in science fiction.
The famous British physicist Stephen Hawking (Stephen Hawking) believe that life exists beyond Earth, but people should avoid contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, according to the London weekly The Sunday Times.
"From a mathematical point of view of the fact of extraterrestrial civilizations is quite rational. Another question is how aliens might look like" - adds Hawking. The British scientist, they may be similar to bacteria and protozoa, as they dominated the Earth for much of its history. But some things can be reasonable and may cause harm to the population of the Earth, which is why contact with strangers should be avoided, says Hawking.
Hawking's opinion also supports Professor Brian Cox (Brian Cox), who believes that life can be found on Mars, the Europa and Titan, Saturn's moon.
For its part, the British Astronomer Royal Lord Rice said in his lectures about what that life is extraterrestrial life may be beyond our understanding. "Imagine a chimp who can not understand quantum theory," - said Rice.
According to the classification of the American ufologist J. Allen Hynek, there are four main kinds of contacts with UFOs. At the first kind of contact going on UFO sighting in the form of luminous lights from a distance, when one can not distinguish the details of the object. The second kind involves observation from close range, when you can see some details. In a third kind of interaction occurs UFO contacts with the environment, which may remain after physical evidence (eg, surveillance of landing UFO's, withdrawing from the so-called creatures.) The fourth kind of interaction involves direct contact with the objects of an eyewitness, UFO abductions. After that, the witness may appear painful symptoms, implants, markings on the body to remain psychophysical experiences.
At the same time, Japanese scholars deny the existence of aliens and the facts do not confirm the appearance of unidentified flying objects. Nevertheless, the people of the country is very concerned with this voprlsu. At one time, a parliamentary representative of Japan requested that the Government monitor the work of scientists to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In response, the Cabinet said that "the evidence of the existence of UFOs do not find confirmation."
"Fighters Air Self Defense Forces periodically fly to intercept the objects that appear to contain the danger while in the airspace of the country," - said in a statement. Otmechaetya that "every time it was a flock of birds or other natural objects, and as a UFO allegedly arriving from outer space, such anecdotal evidence there was not one." As follows from the statement, the government is not research or prospecting in this area and does not consider possible scenarios for dealing with the appearance of a UFO in Japan.
Russian scientists have for the most part are also skeptical about the existence of alien beings in the form in which they are presented in science fiction movies or books. The development of various scenarios of the meeting with the foreign creatures is not Russian scientists, confirm to the RAS.
And in fact, all kinds of natural disasters, weather anomalies, we think, tempered by humanity so that the meeting with incomprehensible beings are unlikely to scare accustomed to all homo sapiens.