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Royal Society Meet to Discuss if Extra-Terrestrials are Here on Earth

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posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 10:31 AM
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Did anyone bother to read the article?



According to Professor Davies, “weird” microbes that belong to a completely separate tree of life, dubbed the “shadow biosphere”, could be present in isolated ecological niches in which ordinary life struggles to survive. Likely hiding places include deserts, scalding volcanic vents, the dry valleys of Antartica or salt-saturated lakes.



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 10:42 AM
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Originally posted by Shroomery
Did anyone bother to read the article?



According to Professor Davies, “weird” microbes that belong to a completely separate tree of life, dubbed the “shadow biosphere”, could be present in isolated ecological niches in which ordinary life struggles to survive. Likely hiding places include deserts, scalding volcanic vents, the dry valleys of Antartica or salt-saturated lakes.


Yeah, I already mentioned this, but just like classic ATS, everybody is more interested in "aliens that look like humans", then what the article is actually saying. They just looked at the attention grabbing headline that said, "are aliens walking amongst us", and everybody is screaming that this is real, and full disclosure is upon us.


Oh well....



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 10:49 AM
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I guess I will wait to see what is released to the general public later and everyone already knows of extremophiles so it would be strange to discuss them again. Who knows EARTH is advancing very fast.

[edit on 1/25/10 by Ophiuchus 13]



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 10:51 AM
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Note a few things.
1) The article's headline states 'To discuss whether extraterrestrials are here on Earth." Not, extraterrestrial microbes.
So yeah, there is room for speculation based on the article title itself. Let alone when they also talk about extraterrestrials being a part of your own family.
2) Any kind of disclosure of extraterrestrial life is a world-changing event. So either way, this is still a very valid topic of conversation.

Also, considering the other "developments" of late (I just looked at YET ANOTHER article about some Scientist saying that ET will be *just like us*... the article can be found on the sidebar of new topics right now) I can understand how people may be thinking that there may be just a little more to this "meeting" than the part of the article you snipped for us to read.
Nice to know that you like to laugh at folks, though.
I suppose maybe you have a sense of humor.



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 11:02 AM
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All that BS about disclosure is probably scaring some people away from actually letting science deal with scientific possibilities about the discovery of ETs.
The problem it's not the aliens but all those crazies that claim they will start the big revolution and demand every governmental or any other authority's head on the plate once their "saviors"arrive.

I don't know why the topic of ETs has gone to the cooks and not right where it really belongs, to the science.

These kind of news is not probably about some imminent disclosure. They must be striving for money now and they might even claim they will look for ETs in order to get them.

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posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 11:17 AM
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I agree, it is a valid discussion given the title of the article and how the article starts out by talking about aliens looking like humans here on earth.

The 2nd half of the article then takes a twist and talks about Microbial life. a huge shift like I mentioned earlier.

The fact that the article sways to and fro from Human looking ET's to Microbes is weird enough.


Maybe the article was delibaratley worded like this to attract viewers and people to the conference, who knows. I guess we will all find out soon enough though.

g



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 11:26 AM
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I don't know that the UFO topic has gone to the cooks, it's more like scientists and non-scientists alike have treated those interested in the UFO topic AS cooks. The most interesting topic in this conference to me, is the discussion about how the public will be handled in relation to the discovery of an alien life, and how to prepare us!! Any talk about what aliens will look like is pretty much a waste of time. They should know that themselves, all that has been speculated on by scientists many times. Some quotes,

"How do you break news of alien discoveries to the world without creating wide-spread pandemonium? "

"The discussion meeting 'The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society' is the first to take place in the Royal Society's 350th anniversary year."

"Should it turn out that we are not alone in the universe, it will fundamentally affect how humanity understands itself and we need to be prepared for what will follow."

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posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 12:19 PM
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What would be better for us?
To meet similar looking aliens, or entirely different kind of species from us?

Chances are we are amidst of some kind of protective bubble and everyone/anyone is watching from distance. Think the Apollo 11 mission sightings. Think other encounters, Think strange ships that look just like our own models but one or two generations too early for example. That happened a lot before after the first and second World war, and even might be happening today. This "bubble thing" would also be the right thing for us I believe. We have to make steps on our own.
If stories about alien civilizations in our ancient times are to be believed, then what happened the last time they came to enlighten us? Complete chaos? How many civilization-al resets it took us to start anew and unspoiled at our own path?
But if we are to meet aliens somewhere down the line and that after many years of already being in space as a society, I guess their whole appearance should be alien to us, the similar s can surely wait for a later time, once we are more ready and are already on the path of learning a few space fairing and first contact tricks ourselves. Also a level of being accustomed with the alien lore might after all be necessary.

If we are just being watched it could also be that we are been handled very passively, but really who can guess who has been assigned for playing the role of our handler/handlers, from whom and most of all why? If we got to meet them what if we found out that they might be tottaly different from us for a purpose, yet the ordering authority very similar to us for example, or at least similar to what they once were?
If a network of different intelligences exists out there, and have something to do with us, chances are we might not be able to make heads from tails and all that might be deliberate and for purposes we might not have yet the intelligence or the maturity to understand.

Everything above are assumptions. In fact too many of them, but worth considering never the less.

Somehow I feel that in the natural order of things, we get to choose when a disclosure will be. Collectively, as a race, ready, informed and willing. Unless of course someone has to force some fakes down our throats but yet again that wouldn't be a real disclosure. What I do believe it might not be disclosure but a discovery. Slowly becoming common knowledge as it should be. Now we just have many inferiority superiority complexes and anxieties occupying too much space in our brains around for anything like that to happen and have a positive effect for our species.



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 12:38 PM
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5 articles in 1 day on Alien life being here or ready to be discovered.. oooo i'm so excited

*bounces up and down*

I think my youngest nephew is a hybrid after what my sister told me during her pregnancy be rather cool if he was



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 12:44 PM
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If they look like us...then it would be more welcoming for us.. perhaps we are having relationships with them now for all we know..

I don't mind to be honest if they are actually ET's that look like us walking amongst us in our cities,schools,governments etc then it's good... although i wonder if inter-planetary sexual relations is against the law?



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 01:03 PM
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One night at late hours a pair of two very good looking male and female aliens from the Pleiades's cluster landed on the roof on top of an expensive house Vila.
The young couple that owned the house jumped from their beds in terror from the large thumb they heard on to of their roof.
Slowly they crept outside to check about that loud noise. Astonished by the presence of the aliens at first they slowly began to socialize with them as the aliens amazingly started to talk telepathically to them. A bit later the handsome alien male departed in a separate room with the young wife while the ravishing female alien led the young husband in another room.
As the handsome blond alien was taking of his suit he explained to the young lady how their reproduction back at their home planet at Pleiades's works. In case she found him too "small" he urged her to rub his ears and instantly his male member would become a bit bigger each time, in order to accommodate her tastes.

The next day, the young alien couple waved goodbye while they were departing with their weird looking spaceship.
The human couple sat there and looked them departing, then the young woman turned to her husband and asked:
"How was your night dear? Mine was absolutely fascinating. I think I never felt better in my life!"
"Oh, I'm not sure dear". Said the husband.
That female didn't seem so good in bed despite her looks. I never enjoyed it. Plus She was totally weird. She kept yanking my ears all night!"

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posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 01:14 PM
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Here is a link royalsociety.org... for anyone interested in watching the live broadcast 26/01/2010 from the royal society....

Speech entitled 'ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE' broadcasting from 6.30pm gmt

will also be available from the 2nd feb online

[edit on 25-1-2010 by TruthxIsxInxThexMist]



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 01:23 PM
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Probably a longshot, but would anybody be willing to capture the live broadcast tomorrow and possible upload it to youtube? I'm going to be gone all day tommorrow and I don't want to have to wait till February 2nd to be able to view it.



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 01:26 PM
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Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by TravisT
 


Note a few things.
1) The article's headline states 'To discuss whether extraterrestrials are here on Earth." Not, extraterrestrial microbes.
So yeah, there is room for speculation based on the article title itself. Let alone when they also talk about extraterrestrials being a part of your own family.
Hehe, no, that was just a "scenario" in order to grab your attention. The article had nothing to do with actual "aliens walking next to us". It was a lead in, to grab your attention, when it just talks about a meeting that will discuss different possibilities of life in microbes, and what could happen if we happen to discover life on other planets. There is no room for speculation, when the article is pretty blunt, with just a fancy lead-in.



2) Any kind of disclosure of extraterrestrial life is a world-changing event. So either way, this is still a very valid topic of conversation.
Yes, I know, that was never my point. My point, was that you guys are spinning this in a completely different direction, and acting like aliens are walking next to humans(ie. full disclosure), when the article isn't implying that at all. It's talking about finding different possibilities of life on other planets, and how SETI hasn't been doing the best job, so we should look at different methods(microbes and planets). Yes, ET-life will be world-changing, but you guys need to stick to what the article really is, and not what you wish it to be, just from a lead-in scenario.


Also, considering the other "developments" of late (I just looked at YET ANOTHER article about some Scientist saying that ET will be *just like us*... the article can be found on the sidebar of new topics right now) I can understand how people may be thinking that there may be just a little more to this "meeting" than the part of the article you snipped for us to read.
Nice to know that you like to laugh at folks, though.
I suppose maybe you have a sense of humor.
This is all just hearsay. I'm talking about what IS in the original article, not what I think is in the article, due to a large imagination.


Originally posted by grantbeed
Maybe the article was delibaratley worded like this to attract viewers and people to the conference, who knows. I guess we will all find out soon enough though.

g
Of course it was, and that was my entire point. When you have most of the members here talking about "aliens walking next to humans", it's clear to me that they didn't even read the full article, as that part was just a lead-in, to attract the attention of the readers. There are posts talking about taxing ET-aliens, protecting them from prosecution, etc etc, when the article, and most likely the conference, isn't talking about that at all.



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 01:49 PM
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Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University, will suggest tomorrow that the search for extra-terrestrial life should be focused right under our noses. His audience will include representatives from Nasa, the European Space Agency and the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, while Lord Rees, President of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, will also lead one of the sessions
Seems to me as though he's trying to discuss the truth with a bunch of people who are already aware of the truth...he wont get very far...



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 02:03 PM
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Originally posted by TheDragonLord
I'm going to be gone all day tommorrow and I don't want to have to wait till February 2nd to be able to view it.


You won't have to wait that long...


This lecture will be webcast LIVE at royalsociety.org/live and available to view on demand within 48 hours of delivery.


going to be at 1030am here on the west coast (USA)...



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 02:08 PM
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Originally posted by TravisT

Originally posted by JayinAR
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Note a few things.
1) The article's headline states 'To discuss whether extraterrestrials are here on Earth." Not, extraterrestrial microbes.
So yeah, there is room for speculation based on the article title itself. Let alone when they also talk about extraterrestrials being a part of your own family.
Hehe, no, that was just a "scenario" in order to grab your attention. The article had nothing to do with actual "aliens walking next to us". It was a lead in, to grab your attention, when it just talks about a meeting that will discuss different possibilities of life in microbes, and what could happen if we happen to discover life on other planets. There is no room for speculation, when the article is pretty blunt, with just a fancy lead-in.



Sorry but your wrong, taken from the royal society website, this is as close to the truth as you will get to what they will dicuss


ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if we ever do make contact.


talk to microbes shell we like total psychooaths, sorry, this is the real deal ,whether you like it or not, not microbes, real walking talking aliens, (thats if they can talk ofc, might not have mouths)



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 02:30 PM
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It's taken the scientific establishment over half-a-century to get to this stage, a live "debate" Have scientists of this stature had conferences in private previously?.. after all this time of mostly public scoffing. Why discuss as alien, microbes, (already found anyway) in places like deep-sea heated vents, or anywhere that there should be no life but there is. They already know about these things, ie; organisms that can exist in any hostile environment, but would be peculiar to that environment. Stuff like that is miles away from the other agendas at the conference, like how to prepare mankind to the knowledge of other civilisations or extra-terrestrials. How they are going to package up this conference for our humble lug-holes should be worth watching, or rather listening to. There has to be a more singular reason for this to take place, any guesses?



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posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 02:36 PM
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Originally posted by smurfy
It's taken the scientific establishment over half-a-century to get to this stage, a live "debate" Have scientists of this stature had conferences in private previously?.. after all this time of mostly public scoffing. Why discuss as alien microbes, (already found anyway) in places like deep-sea heated vents, or anywhere that there should be no life but there is. They already know about these things, ie; organisms that can exist in any hostile environment, but would be peculiar to that environment. Stuff like that is miles away from the other agendas at the conference, like how to prepare mankind to the knowledge of other civilisations or extra-terrestrials. How they are going to package up this conference for our humble lug-holes should be worth watching, or rather listening to. There has to be a more singular reason for this to take place, any guesses?

[edit on 25-1-2010 by smurfy]


A lot of members on ATS have seen blatent UFO's for themselves, i have had a few expieriences myself that are just totally unexplaiable beyond belief, and to think we were the only intelligent life in such a massive universe would be totally ignorant and close minded.

Ofcourse there is other intelligent life, ofcourse they know and it will be released slowly to the world so to not cause hysteria.

A lot of people would become scared of the thought of another non human race living amongst us, not knowing ANYTHING about them, or what they are like, this process will be slow, but this is the beginning, (Hopefully)



posted on Jan, 25 2010 @ 02:47 PM
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Article bout this in the sun newspaper today

www.thesun.co.uk...



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