It is most likely that we are the only living beings in our galaxy, according to an esteemed former Nasa scientist. William Borucki, who played a large part in finding other potentially hospitable planets during his role as chief investigator for the US space agency’s Kepler mission until his retirement in 2015, said that the evidence points to us being alone, in our galaxy at least.
Definitely don’t blast off just yet.
See also: Don’t let Mars fool you. Those exoplanets teem with life!
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How do we grapple with the idea that ET might not be out there?
I believe Borucki’s argument is that we would have heard something if an intelligent civilization was within our galaxy. It has nothing to do with the rareness of Earth or its properties. In fact he seems to imply that Earth is not rare at all.
This is the first time recently that someone is apparently saying that Earth is not rare. Of course there is no close up evidence of just what any other planet is about.
But on the same page there is an article about a newly discovered planet.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/earth.....fe-1512297
But Eric Metaxas indicates that any planet varying just a small amount from Earth would not be habitable in any way we know.
podcast – Hugh Ross on Eric Metaxas’s radio show – Tuesday, September 29, 2015
http://www.metaxastalk.com/pod.....r-29-2015/
OT: podcast Hour 2 – Casey Luskin on Eric Metaxas’s radio show
http://www.metaxastalk.com/pod.....r-25-2015/
The Discovery Institute’s Research Coordinator, Casey Luskin, talks about evolution, Adam & Eve, human origins, and the recent discovery in South Africa of a potentially new species, Homo Naledi.