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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Where Art
Thou?
Where might those
little green men be? It’s been suggested by astronomers they’ve found the
possible places, right in the middle of the Milky Way and X marks the
spot.
“Our Milky Way galaxy is
home to hundreds of billions of stars, but until recently astronomers could only
guess as to how many are hospitable for the development of complex life,”
Charles Lineweaver, from the University of New South Wales, Australia, said in a
statement. “What we have done for the first time is to qualify carefully where
complex life is likely to exist.”
Lineweaver and Swinburne
University of Technology colleagues Yeshe Fenner and Brad Gibson, published a
paper in Science stating that there are hundreds of stars capable of holding
life and are visible with the naked eye.
“Many hundreds and thousands
of stars which you could look up and see with the naked eye, most of which are
actually very close, would potentially have terrestrial planets similar to the
Earth and Mars and Venus.”
Gibson states the habitable
zone appeared about eight million years ago but had since accumulated heavy
elements like carbon, oxygen and iron.
“Perhaps there is no life
out there,” Lineweaver said. “But if there is life, we’ve determined where you
are most likely to find it.”
In either event, if this is
so, something can surely breathe out there. The Heavens may giveth life yet
beyond our own planet!
Where Art thou? written by Bill Barber
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