Search For Earth's Twin: Will We Encounter an E.T. Google?

January 27, 2010

“Columbus forced everyone to rethink, redesign and rebuild their world view.That’s what we’re doing here. To put it in 15th-century terms, we’ve reached the Canary Islands. Getting to where we ultimately want to go is a slow process that involves astronomers, aeronautical engineers, biochemists, anthropologists and businessmen.

Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astrophysics and director of Harvard University’s Origins of Life Initiative Project

“Globalization is complete,” Sasselov said in an interview with Bloomberg.com at the World Economic Forum Conference in Davos, Switzerland, tapping his smart phone into the radio-telescope transmissions that on Nov. 12, 2002, led him to discover OGLE-TR-56b, the exosolar planet that he unofficially named Sheila, after his wife.

"It’s feasible that we’ll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them,” Sasselov says, pointing toward Sheila from Harvard’s astronomy-department laboratory. “We don’t now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.”

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University’s Origins of Life Initiative Project

It very well be google or someone outside of NASA or SETI who will discover an Earthlike Twin, if that is the case they would tell us about it unlike the government.

Life in the universe? Almost certainly. Intelligence? Maybe not
May 11, 2009
Alvin Powell
Harvard News Office
We are likely not alone in the universe, though it may feel like it, since life on other planets is probably dominated by microbes or other nonspeaking creatures, according to scientists who gave their take on extraterrestrial life at Harvard recently.

Speakers reviewed how life on Earth arose and the many, sometimes improbable steps it took to create intelligence here. Radio astronomer Gerrit Verschuur said he believes that though there is very likely life out there — perhaps a lot of it — it is very unlikely to be both intelligent and able to communicate with us.

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Related article, I believe that there is intelligent life out there, certainly if they find an earth like or twin planet they may be us.

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i agree with that, life may be common but i think tech intelligence is probbaly rare. The evidence so far seems to point to this.