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"The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye".
Anyway, so far, so party line ..... but the statement authored by Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, then added that;
"Many scientists and mathematicians have looked... at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth, and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the Universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life. Many have also noted, however, that the odds of us making contact with any of them - especially any intelligent ones - are extremely small, given the distances involved."
Now I wonder what the fundamentalist Christians, who often push the disingenuous "Intelligent Design" theory (that proposes only we exist in a universe created by he who can't be named), think of this? They are a powerful lobby in the Mid West and Southern States come election time, and who are usually no friend to any politician who suggests that intelligent life exists outside of the Earth.
Anyway, whatever the politics of the statement, its still a pity ... many of my schoolboy daydreams are now lying shattered on the rocks of reality.
Buck Rogers shot down in flames by the USAF (or rather a press release).
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