Is he right?
A scientist employed by the government of Switzerland has made a bold prediction about the discovery of alien life — and his reasoning seems pretty compelling., Dr. Sascha Quanz of Switzerland's state-run Swiss Federal Institute of Technology said he thinks humans are likely to discover life beyond our planet within the next 25 years.
"In 1995, my colleague [and Noble Prize laureate] Didier Queloz discovered the first planet outside our solar system," Quanz said during the opening of the institute's new Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life earlier in September. "Today, more than 5,000 exoplanets are known and we are discovering them on a daily basis."at least potentially habitable, with the conditions on their surface ripe for liquid water. And as he said, that number is growing all the time.
That latter mission, known as Large Interferometer for Exoplanets or LIFE, conceived in 2017, is still in an early study phase, and has not yet received either approval or funding from the ESA,Nevertheless, Quanz characterized the LIFE program as a "candidate for a future large mission within the ESA science program" — itself a huge step for the search for intelligent life community, which has gained unprecedented traction in recent years as the scientific community begins to take the...
"There's no guarantee for success," the researcher said. "But we're going to learn other things on the way."
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