A NASA scientist is claiming that human beings missed a visit by aliens. The Daily Wire reports:
According to a NASA scientist, intelligent alien life may have visited earth and human beings missed it.
Silvano P. Colombano, a member of NASA’s Intelligent Systems Division, wrote a paper titled “New Assumptions to Guide SETI Intelligence,” and presented it at the “Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop.” In the paper, Colombano asserted:
Recent discoveries due to the Kepler project have identified planetary system as old as 10.4 Gyr (Kepler-10) [1] [3], and 11.2 Gyr (Kepler-444) [2]. Considering that the age of our solar system is about 4.5 Gyr, earth like planets could exist that are 6 Gyr, older than our own. Considering further that technological development in our civilization started only about 10K years ago and has seen the rise of scientific methodologies only in the past 500 years, we can surmise that we might have a real problem in predicting technological evolution even for the next thousand years, let alone 6 Million times that amount!
Considering further that technological development in our civilization started only about 10K years ago and has seen the rise of scientific methodologies only in the past 500 years, we can surmise that we might have a real problem in predicting technological evolution even for the next thousand years, let alone 6 Million times that amount!
Theories like this one will continue to fuel the race to the next frontier – space.
Hate to sound like Noah in the Bill Cosby bit but, what’s a Gyr and a Kepler?