Many have wondered if NASA could be paving the way to announce the discovery of extraterrestrial life.A couple of days earlier, NASA coordinated a discussion in which the possibility of observing extraterrestrial life sooner rather than later was put on the table before a variety of researchers, historians, rationalists, and scholars from around the world. The meeting he attended was held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and its main purpose was to investigate ways to prepare the general public for the inevitable disclosure of extraterrestrial life, whether simple creatures such as organisms or creatures you knew high level.

“We’re thinking about all the potential scenarios in tracking life. Assuming we locate microorganisms, that’s a sure thing. In the event we find one vision, it’s another; more assuming they can transmit,” said Steven J. Dick , cosmologist, former NASA antiquarian, and conference coordinator Preparing for Discovery: A Rational Approach to the Impact of Finding microbial, complex, or intelligent Life Beyond Earth.

“The idea is that we don’t need to hold out until we make the disclosure to prepare people in general for the potential ramifications,” Dick explains. “I think the explanation that NASA is currently supporting is a direct result of the new move in consistently finding exoplanets and advances in astrobiology in general.”

Among the speakers who finally participated in the week’s debate was one who not too far in the past attracted attention for his statements.

“I accept that extraterrestrial life exists, however I have no proof of it. I would feel exceptionally energetic if [the presence of extraterrestrial life] were declared. It would develop the way of interpreting religion in a way that I cannot foresee,” Brother said. Guy Consolmagno, Jesuit cleric and planetary researcher at the Vatican observatory.

Consolmagno earned a few headlines when he long ago proclaimed that “any item—regardless of how many arms it has—has a spirit,” and proposed that he “would be happy to submerge aliens if they asked him to.” A behavior that Pope Francis himself favored for the current year.

“There must be opportunity when doing science. Being a decent researcher implies admitting that we don’t know everything: there is always something new, something new to learn,” said Consolmagno, who also accepts that the general population would not overreact assuming that discovered the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Among the various personalities taking part in the debate was Seth Shostak , a cosmologist at the SETI Institute in California, who offered intriguing subtleties in figures that clearly demonstrate that we are in good company in the Universe.

“The number of habitable universes in our world is estimated to be several billion, and that excludes the moons. The number of cosmic systems we can see, apart from our own, is about 100 billion.”

“That is a significant number, and we know that most of those stars have planets -70 or 80 percent-. It would be excessively rare for us to be the most intriguing thing in the Cosmos. We are not a supernatural event, we are simply one more duck in the “succession. Probably one in five stars has a simple Earth. That’s a ton of sustainable universes; truth be told, the number of ‘Earths’ on our own world could be on the order of 50 billion,” Shostak said.

The point of the UFOs could not be missing between the consultations. As the conference coordinator noted, while “a huge level of cases can make sense for regular quirks, there is a 3 to 4 percent level that has no great reason and should be more focused.”

At the meeting in Washington DC, the following mission to replace the popular Hubble was also discussed: the James Webb Space Telescope. As big as a tennis court, this deep space observatory blasted off in 2018 and circled our moon. The James Webb will focus its main objective on the acquisition of new information and the collection of environmental data from exoplanets, something that will make it possible to track possible signs of life in different universes.