S.C. Stuart, PC Mag: Here's Why Aliens Will Probably Come in Peace
Ahead of World Space Week, we talk to SETI Institute chief Bill Diamond about the search for extraterrestrial life and why the idea of aliens coming to Earth to destroy us is 'absurd.'
Humans have been looking to the stars for millennia wondering if we're the only intelligent beings in the universe. Statistically, it's highly illogical (as Spock would say) we're alone. Stretching out from this planet of 7 billion people there are 46 billion light years between us and the edge of the knowable universe. There must be someone or something.
Sometimes it's best not to dwell on this, unless you enjoy having an existential crisis. Leave that to the SETI Institute and those like Dr. Frank Drake, who in 1961 developed the Drake Equation, which seeks to calculate the number of detectable civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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WNU Editor: Will man welcome them in peace?
