Aliens: The Hunt Is On
This, extracted from today’s edition of Britain’s Guardian newspaper, makes for illuminating reading with respect to the on-going search for extraterrestrial life:
Prof Glenn White of Open University said that a European Space Agency mission called Darwin, a flotilla of telescopes due for launch in 2018, will scan 500 stars over five years within a distance of 60 light years and study the light from 50 alien planets to seek vital signs.
“Once the mission gets up, we are pretty sure that, if there is life out there, we are going to have an extremely high probability of telling you whether life has started on a planet,” said Prof White. “Around 2020 we will have very definitive answers.”
His Open University colleague, Prof John Zarnecki, said that in 2015 a mission will land on Mars to dig two metres into the surface and use a package of instruments to look for life signs, “biomarkers”.
And he had high hopes for a future mission to the icy Jupiter moon Europa too. “My position is very simple,” said Prof Zarnecki, who has helped to land a probe on Saturn’s moon, Titan. “We will find extinct or some life in the solar system or extrasolar systems. We shall find life on Mars in 2015 and on Europa in 2023.”
For the rest of the story, click here.
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Jun 06 2007 
June 6th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Thank god I’m young. I hope they can put their money where their mouth is.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Reading that article was pretty funny. I got this vision of aliens sitting around watching stuff like Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Steptoe & Son, The Young Ones…
What *would* they think?
June 6th, 2007 at 10:26 am
LOL, yeah that would be very funny if their first exposure to earth was Rick, Neil, Vivian and Mike! Who knows: maybe they are big fans!
June 6th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
If they see Emma Peel…they will come
June 8th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Is that Emma Peel comment a pun?
Jess