Proof Of Life: How Would We Recognise An Alien If We Saw One? - Aeon

There are no airy-fairy hypotheses presented by Samuel Levin, but potent answers about how, after the initial shock, alien life will be subject to the same rules as humanity. We're not talking draconian dictums declared by dotards, but universal, biological processes despite some alien homeworld's circumstances. Even if we are lucky enough to engage aliens, they might as well communicate with some starfish language or moon-squiggles rather than a universal language like Esperanto. Sheri Wells-Jensen figures there's a glimmer of hope for opening a meaningful dialogue. Chances of such an encounter become vanishingly small since some egghead reckons Smart Aliens Might Live Within 33,000 Light Years Of Earth. It's less about extraterrestrial iterations of Idiocracy but the adage of, "Location, location, location". After Dave Mosher's done helping sift through the cosmic haystack, Paul Seaburn drops the Tsara Bomba of the 21st century after catching wind of some Russian Astronomer Admitting The Existence Of Aliens. Intelligent aliens. Russian-speaking intelligent aliens. Russian-speaking intelligent aliens intent on hacking the polls on November 6th. Okay, not really but we leave it to you to decide if Dmitry Bisikal's spreading disinformation or, uncharacteristically for a Russian, being honest. (CS)

_{-- Delivered by Feed43 service}

from THE ANOMALIST http://bit.ly/2OqaSJF