皇家天文學家：'外星人可能在面前凝視著我們'

皇家天文學家：'外星人可能在面前凝視著我們'
Royal astronomer: 'Aliens may be staring us in the face'
Aliens may be “staring us in the face” in a form humans are unable to recognise, the Queen’s astronomer has said.
外星人可能"在面前凝視著我們'”以一個人類不能識別的形式，英女王的天文學家說。
By Heidi Blake
Published: 7:25AM GMT 22 Feb 2010
Aliens may be 'staring us in the face' according to Lord Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society
外星人可能'在面前凝視著我們'根據皇家學會主席馬丁里斯勳爵

Lord Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen, said the existence of extra terrestrial life may be beyond human understanding.
皇家學會主席和英女王的天文學家馬丁里斯勳爵說，外星生命的存在可能超越人類理解。
He made the remarks shortly after hosting the national science academy’s first conference on the possibility of alien life.
他在主辦國家科學院的第一次會議，關於外星生命的可能性，會後不久作這番評論。
“They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognise them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology,” he said.
“他們可能在面前凝視著我們，而我們剛只是不識別他們。問題是我們在找尋的東西要很似我們，假設他們至少有似同樣數學和科技的東西，“他說。
“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”
“我懷疑可能有生命和智慧在那，以我們無法想像的形式，正如黑猩猩無法理解量子理論，它可能以現實的樣子在那裡，而那是超越我們的大腦能力。“
Lord Rees used the conference in January, entitled The Detection of Extra-terrestrial Life and the Consequences for Science and Society, to ask whether the discovery of aliens would cause terror or delight on earth.
里斯勳爵的會議在1月，題為探測外星生命和對科學與社會的後果，他借此詢問外星人的發現，會否在地球上導致恐怖或喜悅。
He told Prospect magazine that improved telescopes made the chance of finding extra-terrestrial life “better than ever”.

But Dr Frank Drake, the world’s leading “ET hunter”, told the conference that satellite TV and the “digital revolution” was making humanity invisible to aliens by cutting the transmission of TV and radio signals into space.

At present, the Earth is surrounded by a 50 light year-wide "shell" of radiation from analogue TV, radio and radar transmissions. But although the signals have spread far enough to reach many nearby star systems, they are rapidly vanishing in the wake of digital technology, according to Dr Drake.

The scientist, who founded the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence organisation in the United States, said digital TV signals would look like noise to a race of observing aliens.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7289507/Royal-astronomer-Aliens-may-be-staring-us-in-the-face.html

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