A longer list of Earth-like planets, eavesdropping on radio waves and looking for laser light shows: All raise the chances of detecting E.T.
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And even if you did get an estimate for that probability, it wouldn't mean much. (After all, the San Francisco 49ers had a 95 percent chance of winning the Super Bowl with under 8 minutes to go in the game — and still lost.)
But however small the probability of seeing a signal from E.T. is, those chances are soon going to be a lot better than they have been in the past.
This may worth something:
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However, scientists have rebuked Wickramasinghe's suggestions that any such illness might have extraterrestrial origins, and his ideas have largely been considered pseudoscience or "bad science."
It would be unprecedented to discover that a virus could survive the radiation it would be exposed to on such a long journey through space (never mind the trip back to Earth) and still be able to infect humans after it landed, astrobiologist Graham Lau, who hosts NASA's "Ask an Astrobiologist" series, told Space.com. However, while it would be an incredibly unique and groundbreaking finding if this were true, Wickramasinghe simply does not have evidence to support his claims, Lau said.
Council Post: Protecting Your Network Against The Next Frontier: Extraterrestrials
Down here on Earth, the daily battle against malware, injection attacks, ransomware and credential theft already has many of us sleepless, manic and paranoid. Now, it seems we have to worry about ETs, too!
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What if ETs did visit Earth? What if they weren't the friendly type? The War of the Worlds narrative is among the grimmest of extremes, but let's presume that our aliens are more mischievous than malevolent.
Would our information assets be safe from an alien's prying tentacles? Does it really matter what species a cybercriminal is? Aren't alien attackers just like others who want to spy on or abscond with our precious ones and zeros?
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The other is active. We send out probes to distant planets and moons and scan even farther-away heavenly bodies with powerful telescopes that can help us to determine the makeup of a planet's atmosphere.
Looking past the Red Planet, the European Space Agency and NASA are both planning to launch space telescopes that could scan the atmospheres of "exo-planets" potentially hundreds of trillions of miles from Earth.
NASA's new James Webb telescope, billed by the agency as the " world's premier space science observatory," should be ready by 2021. The ESA's Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-Survey telescope is slated for a 2028 launch.
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