Gianfrancesco 1 Thomas Gianfrancesco Mrs.

Sergi ENG4U1 Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Are we alone? Earth is a lone pale blue dot in the universe, a speck of dust surrounded by a vast space filled with millions of other similar dots, is it possible that earth is not the only planet with life amongst it? We havent found life in outer space but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that we arent alone in the universe. Life in outer space can be proven by the hundreds of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects throughout time, accredited scientists takes on outer space life, and the incredibly vast amount of planets and galaxys throughout the universe. People have seen flying objects in the sky unsure of what they are, people from President Jimmy Carter to random low-class nobodies. At least several hundred thousand UFO sightings have been documented over the past 50 years. These sightings used to be about word of mouth and if someone was trust worthy enough to believe without proof but just words. With the advancement in technology and how easy and accessible it is to record High Definition footage people are now able to capture footage of UFOs in the sky. Now with cameras built into almost every phone people can capture UFO sightings from several angles with even more proof that there is something happening and allows everyone who wasnt there to view it also. This leaves room for conspiracies to form calling these videos hoaxes and fake, people will rip these videos apart to

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find a small thing that could be wrong with them and in the end we are never sure if the videos are fake or real because of these people. Were never sure of what the unidentified objects could be but Dr. Maurice Biot an aerodynamicist and mathematical physicist has said that The least improbable explanation is that these things [UFOs] are artificial and controlledmy opinion for some time has been that they have an extraterrestrial origin. Although it is his opinion, he is a scientist of high caliber and doesnt make opinions based on nothing. This crushes the opinion that the government controls the UFOs and that the films and sightings are fake and played off. As of right now theres still no definite proof that the government is faking UFOs to further scare society but according to scientists and their views on it, it is most likely that its truly extra terrestrial beings. Louis Breguet a French aircraft designer and manufacturer is quoted saying The discs [that UFOs use] use a means of propulsion different from ours. There is no other possible explanation. Flying saucers come from another world. This is a man whos career is with aircrafts, he proves that on Earth we have not found a way to make discs fly with our current propulsion system we work with aircrafts. There are several other scientists and astrologists that say there are beings out in the universe and that we are not alone on earth. Stephen Hawking one of the world's most celebrated scientific brains is afraid that if these aliens have the means to travel and visit us they also have the power to control us and take over Earth similar to what happened when Christopher Columbus visited America and the Natives for the first time. Some scientists including a group of

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Bulgarian Government scientists claim that aliens already exist on earth and are integrated into society. "Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time," Mr Filipov told Bulgarian media. The amount of scientists that believe in Aliens in the universe is astounding and these people who spend their lives studying and proving theories and breaking peoples ideas apart believe in something we have no concrete proof of actually existing must mean something. Scientists study of planets shows how we are so small and so insignificant, but if we are the only planet with life why would there be a billion other stars with no meaning but to just sit there. Astronomers at Harvard lead by David Charbonneau have found a planet 2.7 times bigger than Earth, which they call the Super-Earth which may hold water the source of all life. With water on a planet there are organisms living on the planet which means that there is without a doubt life (in the form of organisms) living there. This super-Earth with the name GJ 1214b has a surface temperature of 190 degrees Celsius and crushing atmospheric pressure. This pressure lowers the temperature of water to just above 100 degrees Celsius, and the huge amount of pressure increases odds of liquid water. Based on the size and the physical aspects of this planet its the closest weve come to clone of earth, but its only the top of the surface of what we can discover in the universe. We have billions of planets that we havent seen yet and as we discover more and more we will understand the universe more and further chances of finding a planet with life amongst it. The more earth-like planets that are discovered (which will skyrocket in the next 5 years) the more our chances are of finding another life

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form. As technology advances we can find these planets more quickly and efficiently, the rate of technology advances is so rapidly increasing that its too fast for scientists to keep up with, this means that well skip on entire advancements because a better one already has been created. This really helps with the finding of planets and stars in the universe that are further than weve ever been able to find in the past. Earth is so small in the universe it really means nothing but we are the only known planet to have life. There are stars such as VY Canis Majoris which is about 600 times the size of the Sun (the Sun is 109 times bigger than Earth ((1,392,000km diameter)) ), which puts into perspective how small the Earth really is. The further discovery of planets deep into the universe will be crucial to the prevail of finding other life forms in the universe. Aliens are probably out in the Universe, somewhere out of our reach and they have probably visited us. Weather theyre hiding from us and watching us over time or are small microscopic life forms building in water slowly evolving we will find them eventually with the advancing technology being available to scientists. With the thousands of UFO sightings across the world, the several opinions from accredited scientists that aliens exist somewhere in the universe, and the sheer amount of planets in the Universe we can prove that Aliens exist but we just havent found them, yet.