article_snippet: If this is true, this is true would suggest that the conditions that have allowed life on Earth to thrive are incredibly rare.
article_snippet: Aliens are real - not little green men visiting Earth as depicted in movies, but rather microbial life in our own solar system and intelligent life beyond.
article_snippet: That’s according to two leading Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) researchers, who took part in a hearing at the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in Washington DC last August.
article_snippet: Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe’ in May, the scientists laid out the evidence and reasoning for believing we are not alone.
article_snippet: The speech was made by Dr Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the Seti Institute in California, and Dr Dan Wethimer, Director of Seti Research.
article_snippet: And, they added, with adequate support it is likely we will find alien life in some form or another within 20 years.
article_snippet: Dr Wethimer said: ‘It would be bizarre if we are alone,’ Dr Wethimer told the House Committee on Science, Space.
article_snippet: It would be a cramped mind that didn’t wonder what other life is out there.
highlights_snippet: And it may mean conditions for life on Earth were extremely rare .