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Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). What do we know about it? It’s an alien’s favorite vehicle. The true inquiry of aliens has emerged from decades to even centuries ago. Yet, aliens still remain a mysterious entity that we cannot solve and confirm its existence. What have we found so far?
Well, a few decades ago, scientists tried to find the existence of aliens through biological sequencing and tried to find any discrepancies or mutations that could have occurred between humans and aliens. Through the use of biosignatures, ways to detect if there is presence of life, scientists were determined to find the truth to this alien mystery.
Yet, time and time again, researchers came up with no specific evidence that aliens could exist in our galaxy even through biological testing. Another example, Victoria Meadows, a researcher from the University of Washington, analyzed biosignatures from the conditions of the planet which are similar to an exoplanet as well as the chemicals which are similar to that of Earth, it would be reasonable to conclude that there could be alien life on various already discovered planets that could sustain human life.
However, through our limited scope of our planet compared to the scope of the whole universe, as of now and for a while it will be difficult to detect if there is extraterrestrial life out there.
Yet, the answer is still not no, it is just unknown, and with the rise of technology and artificial intelligent systems, our answer could come much, much sooner.
References:
Scoles, S. (2024, February 20). The search for extraterrestrial life as we don’t know it. Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-as-we-dont-know-it/