In an event celebrating Star Trek, NASA and SETI experts deliberated on the issue of the possibility of the existence of extra-terrestrial life outside the planet. The specialists gave their respective answers based, of course, on scientific evidences and studies.
The debate on the existence of aliens has long been discussed even before. It was the most fascinating subject that both people and the experts have been dealing on up to these days. Now, are we that close to finding the answer that these aliens indeed exist?
In the Star Trek 50th anniversary event, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Bobak Ferdowski and Dan Werthimer, chief of University of California Berkeley's Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, were the frontrunners of the discussion.
As reported on Futurism, one of the things discussed is the difference between being primitive and intelligent. Ferdowski and Werthimer both agreed that intelligent life does not necessarily mean technological life. They stated that discovering intelligent life will take quite a long time while primitive extra-terrestrial life could be discovered in the next 20 to 30 years.
They even pointed out humans may find primitive life out there but it will not be developed into something that humans term as single-celled life. If they indeed exist, they are not that interested in contacting us though. The two even cited two theories to back up their claims - Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox, which suggest that intelligent life is a typical occurrence in the universe.
Lastly, they gave clarifications on whether the extra-terrestrial life is similar to humans. The experts cited the theory known as panspermia telling that if aliens exist and they are like human beings that could only mean that there was a shared originator of life in the universe.
Werthimer finally gave a profound answer that if humans would eventually found out that we are not the only ones here that could drive us to take good care of the precious life here on Earth.
Werthimer and Ferdowski may have not arrived to definitive answer, but the two left considerable point which we could also look into when we study our own existence.
