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Many of us sometimes wonder if we are alone in the universe. The universe is too vast and probabilities are so high (or are they) that life in some form must exist elsewhere. Then why haven’t we found life yet? We will explore something called Fermi’s Paradox below and attempt to analyze whether such a paradox is really a paradox after all. We will also cover some of the vast arrays of technologies being used and being built to help us discover any life close enough to Earth to detect. For example, one of the primary routes being used by scientists to identify signatures of other intelligent life is by analyzing radio waves in order to find particular signatures or patterns which could conceivably be construed as “messages.” By one estimate from Time magazine, we could find extraterrestrial life by 2040 given how quickly we are able to process the data from these inbound radio waves. That’s the same year as a new US Presidential election. Just in time for a Martian to run as an independent third-party candidate!

*What’s intelligent life anyway?*

There has been an extraordinary amount of research and research dollars being poured into the identification of UFOs. However, UFOs should not be confused with extraterrestrial life. UFOs are simply “unidentified flying objects.” There is a not-so-subtle difference between “extraterrestrial life” and unidentified objects flying in ranges common for drones and airplanes (including military aircraft) that are not immediately recognizable on our radar screens. The question of extraterrestrial life itself might be broken into several components of how we categorize life in the first place. For instance, we might think of intelligence on a gradient of intelligence relative to life forms that we humans recognize:

The Drake Equation was developed by the astrophysicist Frank Drake, who chairs the SETI Institute in California. The Drake Equation attempts to estimate the number of advanced civilizations in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Drake uses simple probabilities to help organize our obviously true ignorance of the truth on extraterrestrial life. For instance, he estimates the number of lifeforms based on the number of habitable planets. The number of habitable planets is simply a percentage range of the total planets. The total number of planets is based on the number of stars in our galaxy. Of course, the number of galaxies is an extraordinary figure, which by many estimates is still growing, even exponentially. Each sub-possibility (number of galaxies, number of stars, number of solar systems, number of Earth-like planets, etc.) is a derivative of the other. 

*UFOs and Hollywood*

As noted above, UFOs are simply “unidentified flying objects” and do not signify aliens but seem to take up a lot of the oxygen on the subject of extraterrestrial life. For instance, the New York Times dropped a “bombshell” in 2017 that acknowledged a $22 million program run out of the Pentagon for identifying various UFOs. Rumors about Area 51 have been turned into endless TV series like the X-Files and major Hollywood blockbusters like Independence Day with Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum. If you’d like to rewatch this coming Independence Day, it’s easily streamable on Hulu, Google Play, or Amazon Prime. There’s even a sequel called Independence Day: Resurgence, featuring some of the original actors like Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, along with some new stars like Liam Hemsworth and some up and coming stars like Maika Monroe. You can stream Independence Day: Resurgence on YouTube, Google Play, or Amazon Prime, but fair warning that the sequel only gets 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 5/10 on IMDB.

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