Are aliens tuned in to old radio stations?
Roger Highfield London Telegraph Wednesday June 6, 2007 Aliens are alive and well in the rest of the cosmos – and they could already be tuning into vintage human radio broadcasts, according to leading scientists. For the first time in history, the dream of searching for signs of life in other solar systems is on the list of achievable and planned human endeavours, mostly because around 280 planets have been discovered orbiting alien stars. Experts involved in the study of these alien worlds, and in the quest to find more, told the Government yesterday they were convinced that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Most of them are also convinced that intelligent life will be lurking among the bacteria, microbes and lowlier unearthly bugs. They gathered yesterday at the Department of Trade and Industry in London to meet the Science Minister, Malcolm Wicks. They told him that there have been remarkable advances over the past few years in looking for stars that have planets and said we ar
