Life found in outer space!

 

"Excited by what Hubble and the Webb space telescopes have found, NASA is developing a bigger and better space telescope called the Habitual Worlds Observatory (HWO). Will this lead us to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Or just another green smudge which might only be algae."

Big announcement on the news this morning! It is something we have been waiting for. How long? Just about forever. NASA has announced that life has been found (probable) in outer space. Where is it? Mars? The Moon? Zeta Reticula? Where is it? One of NASA's satellites which can estimate what minerals might be present on a distant planet, has found something a scant 140 light years away. What they found are the building blocks to grow little green ----- algae. Not little green men, but little green algae. Really? What a buzz kill!

There are stalwarts who continue to work for SETI. These people would give anything to find a bug the size of a gnat or even bacteria on another planet. Why? The life which teams on Mother Earth, is rare to non-existent (so far) on other worlds we have studied. Right now, intelligent life is maybe a bridge too far. The possibility of algae on a planet 140 light years away got even the most stoic star gazer excited. Could we go check it out? Sure, if we had a propulsion system which could travel at the speed of light. That way, it would only take 280 years round trip to find out if this possible algae was algae, or just a false alarm.

What about all the UFOs that folks have seen since the 1940's? Do they prove that life exists outside of Earth? Maybe - but we have yet to have full disclosure where a craft would land on the White House lawn, and a "something" would get out and say, "Take me to your leader". Some scientists believe that the UFOs we are seeing are actually Earthlings. Not Earthlings like us - maybe beings who developed over the centuries living in our oceans. Or maybe under the Earth. 

Now here is where it goes from the funny stuff to the just plain weird stuff. Quantum Computing. We have developed computing power which is so fast, so powerful, we are getting some very strange (and sometimes spooky) readouts. What does this mean? First off, it means Einstein might have been right when he referred to quantum physics as "spooky". It also means that scientists who believe in the string theory, or multi-dimensional universe theory, might think this is their first shred of proof a multiverse, and not a single universe, might exist. What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Simply this - our UFOs might be interdimensional travelers instead of interstellar travelers. Or not. 

In any event, now we know we might have algae somewhere "out there". Our quest, our search for life other than on Earth continues. Excited by what Hubble and the Webb space telescopes have found, NASA is developing a bigger and better space telescope called the Habitual Worlds Observatory (HWO). Will this lead us to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Or just another green smudge which might only be algae.