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viking · 01-28-2010, 10:20 AM

I had a strange feeling this morning that disclosure is close...This was in one of the mainstream papers...

They are waking people up slowly....

IT has been the subject of movies for decades - but what would REALLY happen if aliens visited earth?

This may sound like a topic for conspiracy theorists or mad UFO obsessives yet this week science's finest minds gathered in London to debate that very question.

Worryingly, it was suggested that if aliens did come calling, the result would be more Mars Attacks than ET.

The conference - The Detection Of Extraterrestrial Life And The Consequences For Science And Society - was held at the high-brow Royal Society HQ in central London.

Founded in 1660, the Society's members have included legendary scientific figures Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. This event, which I attended, included representatives of NASA, the European Space Agency and the UN Office For Outer Space Affairs. Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal and president of The Royal Society, chaired several sessions. A few years ago we had no evidence of any planets other than those in our solar system. Now we have discovered more than 400.

Radio telescopes scan the skies, listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilisation. We are looking and listening further into the universe than ever before, striving for the answer to the ultimate question: Is the universe teeming with life?

To find out the big issues the event addressed, see the headings below.

Friend or foe?

IF we find life, will they be friendly or here to exterminate us? Views are split.

It has been suggested that civilisations might willingly broadcast information - a sort of cosmic Facebook. Might we tap in and learn something helpful? Other experts pointed out it could be like our own history when a technologically advanced society has encountered a more primitive one - ending in violence.

Don't panic

IF we discover alien life, many people think there will be mass panic.

If we faced an invasion, clearly that would be true. But delegates suggested just an announcement of evidence of life would have little effect. Opinion polls already show large numbers of people believe in alien life. Add to this sci-fi movies embedding the idea of aliens in our minds and there isn't a problem. In 1996 NASA announced they had found a Martian meteorite with evidence of life.

President Clinton made a speech, David Bowie's Life On Mars got a lot of airplay, but life just went on.

further reading...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...hip-to-ET.html

ps...I don't normaly read the Sun !!

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A very nice young lady just placed this on my page!!!

viking

01-28-2010, 10:20 AM	#221
viking Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 1,709	Re: Full Disclosure...Soon! I had a strange feeling this morning that disclosure is close...This was in one of the mainstream papers... They are waking people up slowly.... IT has been the subject of movies for decades - but what would REALLY happen if aliens visited earth? This may sound like a topic for conspiracy theorists or mad UFO obsessives yet this week science's finest minds gathered in London to debate that very question. Worryingly, it was suggested that if aliens did come calling, the result would be more Mars Attacks than ET. The conference - The Detection Of Extraterrestrial Life And The Consequences For Science And Society - was held at the high-brow Royal Society HQ in central London. Founded in 1660, the Society's members have included legendary scientific figures Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. This event, which I attended, included representatives of NASA, the European Space Agency and the UN Office For Outer Space Affairs. Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal and president of The Royal Society, chaired several sessions. A few years ago we had no evidence of any planets other than those in our solar system. Now we have discovered more than 400. Radio telescopes scan the skies, listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilisation. We are looking and listening further into the universe than ever before, striving for the answer to the ultimate question: Is the universe teeming with life? To find out the big issues the event addressed, see the headings below. Friend or foe? IF we find life, will they be friendly or here to exterminate us? Views are split. It has been suggested that civilisations might willingly broadcast information - a sort of cosmic Facebook. Might we tap in and learn something helpful? Other experts pointed out it could be like our own history when a technologically advanced society has encountered a more primitive one - ending in violence. Don't panic IF we discover alien life, many people think there will be mass panic. If we faced an invasion, clearly that would be true. But delegates suggested just an announcement of evidence of life would have little effect. Opinion polls already show large numbers of people believe in alien life. Add to this sci-fi movies embedding the idea of aliens in our minds and there isn't a problem. In 1996 NASA announced they had found a Martian meteorite with evidence of life. President Clinton made a speech, David Bowie's Life On Mars got a lot of airplay, but life just went on. further reading... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...hip-to-ET.html ps...I don't normaly read the Sun !! edit A very nice young lady just placed this on my page!!! viking Last edited by viking; 01-28-2010 at 10:26 AM.