Looking for Aliens in the Universe With These New Efforts

Are there aliens out there somewhere?

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00:00Our search for life out in the cosmos has thus far turned up, well, nothing.

00:08But there is almost certainly life out there somewhere, even if it's just some extraterrestrial

00:12bacteria.

00:13But until we can get boots, or at least the treaded wheels of a rover on the surface of

00:17those planets most likely to have life, we'll likely never be able to confirm it.

00:21That is, of course, unless that life is intelligent, and that life is like that of Earth's, and

00:25constantly sending technosignatures out into space.

00:28And that's exactly what radio-sensing programs like SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial

00:32Intelligence program, is doing.

00:34SETI has detected a number of possible alien broadcasts over the years, but follow-ups

00:38on those have been unable to produce confirmation of extraterrestrial life.

00:42And that's probably because alien life, or at least intelligent alien life, probably

00:46hasn't occurred in Earth's general cosmic vicinity.

00:49Enter the Galileo Project.

00:50The program is only looking for aliens in terms of hard evidence, meaning they're looking

00:54to investigate interstellar objects in space, or those that fall to Earth for signs of life,

00:59and looking at unidentified aerial phenomena that occur in infrared, radio, and optical

01:04bands, and those that are able to be recorded via audio data, meaning looking at observable

01:08data most likely to be exhibited and produced by aliens that are on the same technological

01:13level as humans.