Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:16:33 -0600 Message-ID: <56988EEC.1F74@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:17:16 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Why NASA's top scientist is sure that we'll find signs of alien life in the next decade References: <5696A35D.3A77@ix.netcom.com> <4a89a8ed-19a1-42c8-aa85-e88abad85268@googlegroups.com> <5696B94D.B1E@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-2UkN//TdzbhfGR2mi2qZEiSlmy3dvJ1ArcQOk6+UQDOMX6/8tUXtgnYzzhyIkymjFX3z7amo+PYp1YS!pV6XHTlljTJVR+1JbscltnyaZ4nIoQ9/HnvPqwt1VOLxVky1NYWFsyLxuDovTCGje7V130mD1/xH!WVv8cOHg2A== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2382 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:281185 sci.physics:545568 sci.physics.relativity:374034 rec.arts.sf.written:430973 The Starmaker wrote: > > Gary Harnagel wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 12:19:53 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > > Why NASA's top scientist is sure that we'll find signs of alien life > > > in the next decade? > > > > > > I don't Why, anybody know Why? > > > > Have you considered Tabby's star? > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852 > > > > http://mikegarrett.blogspot.nl/2015/10/another-hint-that-kepler-system.html > > > > > There is only one reason I could come up with... > > > they want a paycheck every week for the next couple of decades. > > > > Baloney! > > Everybody already knows that all new rackets from NASA takes 10 - 20 years. > > They are just creating 'jobs' for themselves and their stupid family. > > Alien life on another planet? 20 years...give us a billion. > > Life on Pluto? 10 years...gives us another billion! > > Life on Mars? Oh, we need another tens years...where's the fuckin money!!! Which one are NASA people? Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich man, Poor Man Beggar man, Thief. I would say between Beggar man, Thief....more like Beggar man though.