They're Just Not That Into Us

Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence research projects have scanned the sky for over 40 years looking for an intelligent signal. Could our level of intelligence be unique in the universe?

This is one of those thought provoking questions I have real difficulty grappling with, because I know so little about the subject.

The same thing happens when I shop for my wife's birthday, so I've opted to apply the same marginally successful method of reaching a conclusion: make a list, then take a shot in the dark as to which one of them is right.

Why is there no scientific evidence of extraterrestrial intelligent life?

Possible answers:

We are the only intelligent life forms.
We are the first, or one of the first, intelligent life forms.
More of the universe needs to be searched.
We are not searching correctly.
Intelligent life exists, but they choose not to be known to us.
Governments are hiding the evidence.
Evidence exists, but is not accepted by the public.
Aliens use a different form of communication we cannot detect.

Unfortunately, I feel the most likely reason that we have not located an alien presence (or Aileen's presents), is that we simply have not looked long enough. I hope there is space at the mall.

I would like to give a shout out to the people at The SETI Institute for having the foresight and diligence to be listening.

Is Blood Rain Alien Life?

From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which the rain was colored red, staining clothes pink. Yellow, green, and black rain was also reported. Colored rain had been reported in Kerala as early as 1896 and several times since then.

It was initially thought that the rains were colored by fallout from a hypothetical meteor burst, but a study commissioned by the Government of India concluded that the rains had been colored by airborne spores from locally prolific terrestrial algae.

It was not until early 2006 that the colored rains of Kerala gained widespread attention when the popular media reported that Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam proposed a controversial hypothesis that the colored particles were extraterrestrial cells. - From 'Red rain in Kerala' - Wikipedia

The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials

Mysterious red cells might be aliens

Weird red rain in India - are we aliens? - BBC Video

Searching for 'our alien origins'

Red rain could prove that aliens have landed

Blood rain

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Visitor Comments

08.09.10

I know this sounds weird but; The people that say we are the government... They alone keep the truth from all of us that ETBE have landed, they have given also they are giving the few top leaders technology intern the leaders give the full access to the human race to experiment on. Perhaps they will tell us in the year 998755, or maybe not it depends on who is in office of the President, if we still are alive then, if the planet earth is still here?.

David

06.24.10

In this so vast universe there are millions of chances for intelligence to evolve. This is not a matter of blind faith, but that of probability. Even brilliants minds such of Sagan's, thought there had to be someone intelligent out there. Maybe another revolutionary physics theory will gear us to the right path on this research. Remember that science is always creating itself and what's now common sense or impossible, will be possible.

Noel

Search for Extraterrestrials Articles, Blogs and Web Sites

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**Search for Extraterrestrials Articles**
Title	Source	Date
Future evidence for extraterrestrial life might come from dying stars	Harvard Gazette	03/13
Dyson Sphere Hunt Using Kepler Data	Centauri Dream	10/12
Finding ET may require giant robotic leap	KurzweilAi.net	04/12
SETI search resumes at Allen Telescope Array, targeting new planets	SETI	12/11
The Myth of the Evil Aliens	Michael Shermer	06/11
The search for ET continues	KurweilAI.net	05/11
Budget crunch mothballs telescopes built to search for alien signals	Scientific American	04/11
A Darwinian explanation for the Fermi paradox	KurweilAI.net	04/11
ET's Asteroid Mining Acitivity Should Be Visible From Earth	ArXiv	03/11
Physicists call for alien messaging protocol	IT News	01/11
NASA discovery of arsenic-based bacterium expands scope of SETI research	KurzweilAI.net	12/10
Why complex life probably evolved only once	New Scientist	10/10
Astronomer Seeks ET Machines	Astrobiology Magazine	10/10
Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet	NASA	09/10
The UN’s secretive alien ambassador	The Economist	09/10
Just a speck in the cosmic soup	Indiana Daily Student	09/10
The search for alien intelligence: Why ET has nowhere left to hide	Silicon.com	09/10
Alien hunters should look for artificial intelligence	BBC News	08/10
Experts are confident alien life will be discovered soon	Softpedia	04/10
Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence	Science Daily	03/10
Alien attack on earth is possible, says Stephen Hawking	University of Cambridge	03/10
Early Attempts to Contact Aliens	Astrobiology Magazine	01/09
Search for alien engineering comes up dry – so far	New Scientist	12/08
Stuff of Life (but Not Life Itself) Is Detected on a Distant Planet	New York Times	03/08
Scientists tune in to 'radio message from the aliens'	Telegraph	09/04
The Law of Accelerating Returns	Kurzweilai.net	03/01

**Search for Extraterrestrials Web Sites and Blogs**
Title	Description
Exoplanet Exploration	JPL
Fermi paradox	Wikipedia
Man Claims Aliens Send Him Messages	ABC News Video
SETI	The SETI Institute
SETI@home	Search for aliens from home
SetiLive	Help SETI search for alien signals
What to Expect when E.T. Calls	The Planetary Society

**References**
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They're Just Not That Into Us	Article by ffa Image (not a real alien) is licensed from istock.com

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