Scientists meet to discuss extra-terrestrial life
January 25, 2010
Eminent scientists from around the world are gathering in London for serious discussions on the possibilities of discovering alien life forms out in the universe. Although astronomers have been scanning the heavens for signs of life in the form of radio broadcasts for the past half a century all that has been heard so far is static. However, Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society, Lord Rees says that he believes technology has advanced sufficiently to allow human beings to locate earth like planets capable of sustaining life. He says that it will still be difficult to collect information about possible life on these planets but claims that scientists will be able to tell what their continents and oceans are like. He said that it is with the recent advent of the space telescope that scientists have been given to tools to focus their search for life on specific areas of the universe.
Talking about intelligent life Lord Rees said that he believed that there could well be forms of intelligence higher than our own and that life could have evolved elsewhere in ways that we cannot conceive.
Last year astronomers discovered a planet which they suspect might be almost entirely covered with water. It orbits a not too distant star and scientists believe that even though the planet is very hot because of the immense pressures exerted on the planets surface the water remains liquid. If it does support life it would be nothing like life on earth.
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