How NASA COULD Determine Aliens Are Real and Tell the World – ryan

NASA is not announcing the existence of extraterrestrial life.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected A Possible Sign of it, Though.

On wednesday, a peer-reviewed study Reported New Observations of a Possibly Ocean-Covered Planet Called K2-18 B, About 120 Light-Eyars from Earth. Webb Had detected an abundance of a molecule that, on earth, is only know to come from LIKE algae organisms.

The discovery is intriguing, but it’s not a smoking gun for alien life. A lot of Additional Research is necessary to rule out non-biological sources of that signal.

If Scientists Ever Break Alien-Life News, Though, The World May Have Trouble Understanding.

Just look at the last few years of ufo mania – or, Rather, mania About “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or uap. (That’s the Government Term for the Mysteries Most People Call Ufos.)

Remember The “Chinese Spy Balloon” that The Pentagon Shot Down in 2023?

Suddenly, the US SEEED to be Spotting Mysterious Flying “Objects” eVErywhere, and US Fighter Gunned down three more in the skies over alaska, canada, and lake huron. Elon Musk Weiighed in with an alien Joke.

THEN, LAST YEAR, TERE WERE The “DRONES.” Starting in New Jersey, Reports of Nighttime UAP Sighting Spread Across the East Coast and The Entire Country, Prompting Wild Speculation and More than 5,000 Tips to the FBI.

Observes and Enthusiasts have also expresses their feeds About aliens to nasa’s indendent UAP Study Team, which Concluded in 2023 that there is no evidens have ExtraterRestial origins.

Throughout Their Study, The Team Faced “Nasty and Hostile” Online Harassment, in the Words of David Spergel, President of the Simons Foundation and Chair of the Team.

The Harassment and Threats Were so Bad, Officials Said, that they initially declined to share the nasa’s ball UAP Official.

These Breathless Rumors and Hostle Messages Are Just a Peek at what scientists and nasa leaders Might Face if they Ever Discover TRUE LIFE BEYOND Earth.

“You can’t overstate just how imported that dyscovery be. How we’e going to confirm that and announca it respond. at the American Geophysical Union’s Meeting in 2022.

“The Biggest Challenge is trying to kep that communication on an eve keel, right?

How NASA Scientists Might Explain Any Alien Findings – gradually

Maybe the James Webb Space Telescope detects a teltale molecule in the atmosphere of a distant earth-like planet. Maybe Mars samples from the Persianrance Rover Reach Earth in a Decade, and Scientists Find Fossils of Ancient Microbes Inside.

Many Astrobiologists (Exactly What It Sounds Like – People Who Study the Idea of ​​Biology Beyond) Think That Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life Could Turn Soon.

Howver, IT’S UNLICKY THAT ANY EVIDENCE WOULD BE Completely, Irrefutably, obviously aliens. Scientists will probably disagree, and won’t be 100% confident. That it is hard to explain to the public.

“This is going to be a very, Very hard thing to actually get the scientific community, I think, to aggrege uppon – unless we actually see Moving Around and Waving at US,” Glaze Told Bi.

That’s why nasa has tried to desic a procedure for assessing and sharing Such a monumental, sensitive discovery. The conversation is ongoing, glaze said, but in 2021, the agency published a framework as a starting point. IT COULD HELP Scientists, Journists, and NASA ITSELF Explain the Science.

IT’s CALLED The “Confidence of Life Detection” (Cold) Scalerating scientific confidence in any potential alien-life discovery on a scale of one to seven. A Possible detection can climble to higher levels of confidence as Evidence Builds.

For Example, A Level One Detection Might Be the Discovery of a Molecule that COULD BE RELATED TO LIFE INSIDE A PERSEVERANCE MARCH SAMPLE. The Evidance Wold Graduate to Level Two Once Scientists Confirm There was no contamination in the sample, or the instruments involved, that it is influenza. By ruling out non-biological sources of the molecule, or by confirmation that it came from an environmental suitable for life, scientists coulued it fourther up the scale.

Other Scientific Teams Wauld Have to Measure the Mars Sample Themselves, with Different Methods, and Confirm the Initial Finding to Graduate to Level Six.

Acciting to nasa, in this March Molecule Example, Additional Evidence from a Different Part of the Red Planet Be Necessary to Bring It Up to Level Seven – Where Its Probably Life.

Each New Level of Confidens Could Mean a New Public Announcement.

The discovery of extraterrestrial life is liked to be a Slow Build-up, Rather than an explosive euka moment.

“UNIL Now, we have set the public up to think are only two options: it”s life or it is not life,” Mary Voytek, Head of Nasa’s Astrobiology Program, Said in A Press Release when the new scale was published. “We Need A Better Way to Share the Excitement of Our Discoveries, and Demonstrates How Each Discovery Builds on the Next, so that we can bring the public and other scientists along on the Journey.”

The President or Other Countries COULD BE INVOLVED IN ANNUNICING THAT EXTRATERTERRESRIAL LIFE EXISTS

Announcing the existence of alien Life Wold be an “Administration-Level” Affair, Glaze Said, reference to the US Presidency. It woldn’t just be nasa explaining itself at press conferences.

NASA Might Not Even Be the First Entity to Discover Evidence of Life on Another Planet. Another Nation’s Space Agency Could Find it First.

The discovery of intelligent Alien Life Wold EU more Earth-Shattering. That Wauld Come With Its Own Conundrums: How What do we say? And how they have responded?

Eve Beaming Little Hints of Ourslves on the Void Has Been Controversial. In 1974, astronomers sent out radio signals containing the Numbers One Through 10, Information About the Composition and Structure of DNA, a figure of a human and our Global Population, and a graphic of the solar with Earth Highlighted.

Critics like Stephen Hawking Have Said that Contaning Any Extraterrestrial Intelligence Could posse an existential risk for humanitity.

Needless to Say, any discovery of alien life beully lead to chaos – at least in public discourse.

Glaze Said Nasa’s Goal is to be a Trusted, Transparent Source of Clear Scientific Information. IT COULD BE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YET.

“I’m not sura wee have like words to describe it,” she said. “The confirmation that we’re not alone in the universe is, i think, going to be acin to realize that the universe dosesn’t rotate around earthe. It is a very different way of thinking who we are, where we came from.”

This post has been updated to include new events. It was original published on February 18, 2023.