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EVIDENCE FOR ET IS MOUNTING DAILY, BUT NOT PROVEN by Seth Borenstein
AP science writer
Published in the PUERTO RICO DAILY SUN, jueves, 9 dieciembre, 2010
[excerpt]
Lately a handful of new discoveries make it seem more and more likely that we are not alone -- there is life somewhere else in the universe.
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California ticks off the astronomical findings about planet abundance (there are three times more stars than the 100 sextillion previously determined) and Earthbound discoveries (microbes can live on arsenic, as well as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosophoros and sulfur) about life's hardiness. "All of these have gone in the direction of encouraging life out there..."
...advanced aliens could find us or we could hear their radio transmissions. That's what the SETI Institute is about, listening for intelligent life.
That's where Shostak puts his money behind his optimism. At his public lectures Shostak bets everyone in the audience a cup of coffee for that scientists will find proof of alien life by 2026. The odds, he figures have never been more in his favor.
J.Galligan
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Santa Olaya, PR