Now scientists are closer than ever to finding the answer thanks to this: Kepler is the most powerful planet hunter ever built and it’s making astonishing discoveries. And even finding new worlds like our own. Aliens: Are We Alone? Channel 5 2013
8KOI701: In early 2011 Keppler saw signs that it had not one but ... four: and this fourth planet was in the right place and the right size. ibid.
So it is at least possible that this new Earth-like planet could have animals with eight legs walking across its surface. ibid.
We will disappear into the blackness of the space from which we came. Destroyed as we began in a burst of gas and fire. The heavens are still and cold once more. In all the immensity of our universe and the galaxies beyond the Earth will not be missed. In the infinite reaches of space the problems of man seem trivial indeed. And man existing alone seems himself an episode of little consequence. That’s all. Rebel Without a Cause 1955 starring James Dean & Natalie Wood & Sal Mineo & Jim Backus & Ann Doran & Corey Allen & William Hopper & Rochelle Hudson & Edward Platt & Nick Adams et al, director Nicholas Ray, Planetarium
Holly tells me he’s sensed a non-human life-form aboard. Red Dwarf s1e1: The End s1e1, captain to crew, BBC 1988
We have been travelling through the galaxy now for three million years and there are many things we’ve discovered. The highest form of life in the universe is man, and the lowest is a man who works for the Post Office. Red Dwarf s1e5: Confidence and Paranoia, Holly
Additional: as the days go by we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless uninhabited hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you’ve got to laugh, haven’t you. Red Dwarf s2e1: Kryten
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have laboured in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study. John Jacob Abel, Experimental and Chemical Studies of the Blood, 1915
Strange signals from outer space. The building blocks of life travelling on a meteorite. An other-worldly presence found in our atmosphere. Ancient Aliens on location s18e16: Evidence of Alien Life, History 2022
A field-study site for an organisation called SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. ibid.
‘And this became known as the ‘Wow Signal’. ibid. Childress
NASA scientist Dr Richard Hoover claims to have found evidence of alien life: Astrobiologist claims cluster of meteorites provide evidence of bacterial life, sparking out-this-world scientific debate. ibid. NewsCore online article March 7th 2011
Billions of Earth-like planets. Each may be capable of sustaining life. And each offering possible evidence that we are not alone. Ancient Aliens s10e6: The Other Earth, History 2015
But if there is such a high probability of the existence of other intelligent lifeforms in the universe, why haven’t we encountered them? ibid.
Dr Ellis Silver: Humans are Not from Earth: A scientific evaluation of the evidence for and (mostly) against man’s evolution on Planet Earth. ibid.
Ancient tales told across the world of a paradise lost. ibid.
Woolpit village. 12th century A.D. Two small children reportedly appear near the opening of a cave. A boy and a girl speaking in an indecipherable language. And their skin was green. ibid.
Strange sharp-toothed predators. Multi-legged monsters. And ravenous reptiles that prey on people. Throughout history there are accounts of bizarre and frightening creatures inhabiting our waters. Imagine if they came not from our lakes and oceans but from somewhere far more remote. Ancient Aliens s10e7: Creatures of the Deep
Sea plankton found alive on outside of International Space Station? ibid. The Times online article James Maynard
What if undiscovered alien lifeforms dwell in the deepest reaches of our oceans? ibid.
Cone-jelly: A complex nervous system that was completely different from the rest of the animal kingdom. ibid.
‘They can regenerate their brain.’ ibid. expert
University of Sheffield, England, 2015: Astrobiologist Milton Wainwright and his research team release scientific balloons 25 miles up into the sky. Once a balloon reaches its target altitude, a capture mechanism will collect samples of material within the Earth’s stratosphere. Ancient Aliens s20e10: Mystery of the Stone Spheres, History 2024
‘A tiny sphere … Titanium and Vanadium … It was actually a shell that had now broken, and coming out of it was this strange ooze that they felt was biological in nature.’ ibid. comment
‘There’s no Earth material associated with them. And they are too large to be carried from Earth to these altitudes. They must be incoming from space.’ ibid. Dr Wainwright
For thousands of years humankind has attempted to make contact with beings from beyond Earth. Now in the 21st century the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is ramping up like never before. Ancient Aliens s20e14: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
This effort is led by the SETI Institute, established in 1984. ibid.
A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for more than 30 years. ibid. online article Natasha Hurley-Walker, The Conversation, 23rd July 2023
Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation. ibid. online article Scientific American
Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world. ibid. online article BBC 12th September 2023