In Starcharts, Sircar uses Schiaparelli's drawings of the Martian landscape, including the winding grooves that, when translated into English as «canals», sparked the hope of
intelligent life elsewhere.
It was a letdown for those of us who marvel at the thought of
intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, but this latest announcement might just make up for it.
«If you find
intelligent life elsewhere, [you] know that you're not the only kid on the block,» says Seth Shostak.
Dr Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, and is part of the research team using large radio telescopes to search for evidence of
intelligent life elsewhere.
«If you find
intelligent life elsewhere, [you] know that you're not the only kid on the block,» says Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif..
This distinction becomes all the more important once we place Christology within the context of possible
intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
Not exact matches
And what if
intelligent or spiritual
life does exist
elsewhere?
They are also more likely than Christians to accept the possibility of
intelligent life, other than humans,
elsewhere in the universe.
Whether it was inevitable that
life and intelligence would eventually occur somewhere in the universe, given the nature of matter and sufficient time to allow random processes to explore all the possibilities, and whether
intelligent life may also have occurred
elsewhere in the universe, are questions which scientists have long argued and sought to ascertain.
Thus, the probability of
intelligent life evolving
elsewhere in the cosmos may be very high even while the odds of it being humanoid may be very low.
Tapping into this curiosity, this lesson uniquely combines the concepts of astronomy and probability in order for students to compare the likelihood of
intelligent life existing
elsewhere in the Universe and winning the lottery.