Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins

liqs8143 writes "Astronomers from the United States have begun searching for alien life on 86 possible earth-like planets. A massive radio telescope that listens for signs of alien life is being used for this project. These 86 planets are short-listed from 1235 possible planets detected by NASA's Kepler telescope. The mission is part of the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, launched in the mid 1980s. A giant dish pointing towards each of the 86 planets will gather 24 hours of data, starting from this week."

crop circles

[Beliskner]

I would first search the exoplanets pointed to by the most interesting crop circles from the global crop circles database [cropcircleresearch.com] why do the hard work when the aliens have done it for us, just draw a line from the centre of the Earth, through the crop circle to the appropriate starsystem

The Aliens are here

[Anonymous Coward]

I do not know why NASA is searching for Aliens when the Aliens were here in the 80's. Massive sightings appeared in CT, NYS and I for one have seen two different crafts. One was so large people pulled over to the side of the road. It was the size of a football field. And, no intervention by earthlings in the air which puzzles me. Another was a smaller disc craft that hoovered above a lake. I believe it was the baby ship. Television even did a documentary on the appearance of these ships. Where was our airforce? Where was NASA?

Re:crop circles

[Time_Ngler]

It's obviously a project being run by an alien bureaucratic agency of some kind. Probably has been running for centuries to keep the "wooden board and rope" skilled aliens employed.

Re:crop circles

[Beliskner]

Have you factored the rotation of the earth into this plan of yours?

The aliens would probably expect us to be able to solved all trivial problems like that.