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Dr. Seth Shostak
The chances are there's life out there, but any messages could be thousands of years old and indecipherable. Roger Highfield reports
Aliens are probably common. Because there are billions of trillions of stars in the cosmos, many astronomers think it would be highly improbable for Earth to be the only rock to harbour life.
Whether ET is intelligent is still hotly debated. But no one doubts that the receipt of a signal from another civilisation would be Earth-shattering. "It would surely be the greatest discovery of all time, eclipsing the findings of Newton, Dawin and Einstein combined," says Prof Paul Davies, a British cosmologist from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University.
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Sir Ulli
Dr. Seth Shostak
The chances are there's life out there, but any messages could be thousands of years old and indecipherable. Roger Highfield reports
Aliens are probably common. Because there are billions of trillions of stars in the cosmos, many astronomers think it would be highly improbable for Earth to be the only rock to harbour life.
Whether ET is intelligent is still hotly debated. But no one doubts that the receipt of a signal from another civilisation would be Earth-shattering. "It would surely be the greatest discovery of all time, eclipsing the findings of Newton, Dawin and Einstein combined," says Prof Paul Davies, a British cosmologist from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University.
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more Info
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/...&sSheet=/connected/2005/10/05/ixconnrite.html
Sir Ulli