Aliens
almost definitely exist.
At least,
that's what two astronomers told Congress this week, as they appealed for
continued funding to research life beyond Earth.
According
to ABC News, Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told
the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday that the
possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is "close to 100
percent."
"In
the last 50 years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and
conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in
our galaxy," said Werthimer in his written testimony, adding: "The
possibility that life has arisen elsewhere, and perhaps evolved intelligence,
is plausible and warrants scientific inquiry."
Werthimer's
colleague Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, also told
Congress that he believes our chances of finding extraterrestrial life are high.
“The
chances of finding it I think are good and if that happens it will happen in
the next 20 years depending on the financing,” Shostak told the committee.
(Watch the full hearing here.)
This isn't
the first time in recent months that Congress has held a hearing on aliens. In
December, the Science House Committee held a two-hour hearing about the ongoing
search for extraterrestrial life. The Wire said at the time that the hearing was the "best thing Congress [had] done in months."
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SETI
astronomers tell US Congress 'there's alien life out there'
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