Are we alone in the universe? Russian scientists don’t think so.
According to The Guardian, one group of Russian scientists thinks humanity will make first contact within the next couple of decades."The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms ... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years," said Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, according to the Interfax news agency.
While speaking at a world forum about the search for life on other planets, Finkelstein said 10% of the planets circling suns in the galaxy are similar to Earth.
He also said that if water can be found on other planets then life can be found there as well. He thinks that aliens would be very much like humans with two arms, two legs and a head. He doesn’t have any comment about how many eyes we might be dealing with.
"They may have different color skin, but even we have that," he said.
Finkelstein’s institute runs a program that was launched in the 1960’s at the height of the cold war paranoia/space race to look for and send out signals to outer space.
"The whole time we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, we have mainly been waiting for messages from space and not the other way," he said.
In March a NASA scientist caused controversy when he claimed that he found remnants of alien bugs in some meteorites that came to earth.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
