![]() Few are willing to say so publicly – and even fewer are actively engaged in the search for intelligent alien life.ĭespite a steady drip-drip of headlines, as government agencies and private organisations around the world have plunged huge amounts of cash into ever more sophisticated satellites (most recently it was the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project), the fact remains that many serious-minded scientists don’t want to tell their peers they’re searching for ET. But the controversy raises an interesting point: a lot of scientists seem to think that it is unlikely that we are alone in the universe. I’m not naming Robin out of respect for her inbox. “There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life.” “Aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it,” Robin had said. The mistake she had made was to talk freely to a magazine journalist about extraterrestrials – comments that were “taken massively out of context”, according to her exasperated agent. Robin – a well-known astronaut to whom I’ve given a pseudonym – had declined them all. ![]() ![]() The agent had received messages from The Times, The Guardian, “about eight” enquiries from different parts of the BBC. “We’ve had 143 requests and she has decided not to do any of them.” “Robin does not want to do an interview,” she trilled breathlessly down the line. The press agent’s answerphone message was unusually spicy. ![]()
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