Close Encounters Of The Scientific Kind

[Ivan Seeking]

Despite its perceived association with kooks and conspiracy theorists, there is an active and fascinating field of research that uses UFOs and extraterrestrial life as a jumping point, which is the focus of a conference on UFOs held this coming weekend at the Telus World of Science.

...Part of the issue may be that we just don’t look, well, up, enough, according to Matthews. “It’s not part of our lives to look up into the skies,” he explained. “They don’t understand what they’re seeing, and I can’t interpret it based on their description.[continued]

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[matthyaouw]

“Well, if there is life elsewhere, they are almost certainly going to be living on planets possibly like our own,”

 

[ok123jump]

“Well, if there is life elsewhere, they are almost certainly going to be living on planets possibly like our own,”

I'll add my own to that as well. I would also like to post the book

What is Life by Erwin Schrodinger

on the "Recommended Reading" list.

(Sorry for the spelling Erwin, I couldn't expediently find the "o" with an umlaut.)