Bill
Clinton Is Right: There Are Aliens in Space
The former president weighs in on the existence of ET—and
he's probably right
One of
the good things about being an ex-President is that you get to say the kinds of
things you could never say when you were still the most powerful person in the
world. Take aliens—the space kind. Last night, during an appearance on Jimmy
Kimmel’s show, the 42nd prez admitted not only that when he was in the White House
he ordered a review of all of the documents related to the long running rumors
over aliens landing in Roswell, N.M. in 1947, but that he would not be
surprised if we did eventually get a cosmic caller.
“If we
were visited someday I wouldn’t be surprised,” he said, “I just hope it’s not
like Independence Day,” a reference to the 1996 movie in which
aliens do land—and behave very, very badly.
Has
Clinton gone ’round the bend? Not a bit–depending on whether you subscribe to
the life-is-easy or life-is-hard school of thought. Physicist, broadcaster and
author Paul Davies of Arizona State University is one of the
leading proponents of the we’re-all-alone camp, arguing in his aptly titled
book The Eerie
Silence that
biology emerging from dead chemicals was such a cosmic longshot that it’s
entirely possible it happened only once, here. But that position is becoming
increasingly untenable.
First,
there are about 300 billion stars in the Milky Way and our galaxy is one of at
least 100 billion in the universe. So, as the overworked idiom goes, do the
math. What’s more, ever since the Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009,
close to 4,000 candidate planets have been discovered in the Milky Way and
close to 1,000 have been confirmed.
Planets
aren’t the same as biology—witness Earth’s lifeless brothers and sisters in our
solar system—but the increasingly evident presence of water and organic
chemicals in asteroids, comets and throughout the interstellar medium suggests
that the ingredients for life are everywhere. If that’s so, it may take little
more than that chemistry plus some energy source (light or heat) plus time to
cook up something living. Clinton may have had his political critics in his
eight years in the White House, but science, in this case, appears to be on his
side.
1 comment:
being that he is one of the elite, by blood and his silents to that fact.
i must give him credit on TRYING to tell the human race the truth, hopefully it is not a staged slip of the tongue his group wants us to know.
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