White House Responds to ET petition

Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:10 am » by **Mojorisin**

Can you believe this?

Here's the official response:
Searching for ET, But No Evidence Yet

By Phil Larson who works on space policy and communications at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Thank you for signing the petition asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.

The U.S. 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.

However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth. Here are a few examples:

SETI—the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence—was originally stood up with help from NASA, but has since been moved to other sources of private funding. SETI's main purpose is to act as a giant ear on behalf of the human race, pointing an array of ground-based telescopes towards space to listen for any signal from another world.
Kepler is a NASA spacecraft in Earth orbit that's main goal is to search for Earth-like planets. Such a planet would be located in the "Goldilocks" zone of a distant solar system—not too hot and not too cold—and could potentially be habitable by life as we know it. The Kepler mission is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-sized, rocky planets in or near the habitable zone of the star (sun) they orbit.
The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, is an automobile-sized rover that NASA is launching soon. The rover's onboard laboratory will study rocks, soils, and other geology in an effort to detect the chemical building blocks of life (e.g., forms of carbon) on Mars and will assess what the Martian environment was like in the past to see if it could have harbored life.

A last point: Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset 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.

But that's all statistics and speculation. The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.

Relevant Links:

SETI
NASA Kepler Mission
NASA Mars Science Laboratory

Check out this response on We the People.

Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:13 am » by **Kerrblur2**

funny!!

Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:25 am » by **Noentry**

As a matter of conventional science what they say is true .
But on a personal note ,I believe they found us first :flop:

Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:52 am » by **Phoenix rising**

That responce was predictable and expected, lets see how they save face when the truth comes to light

Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:09 am » by **Wolfbane7272**

mojorisin wrote:Can you believe this?

Here's the official response:
Searching for ET, But No Evidence Yet

By Phil Larson who works on space policy and communications at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Thank you for signing the petition asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.

The U.S. 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.

However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth. Here are a few examples:

SETI—the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence—was originally stood up with help from NASA, but has since been moved to other sources of private funding. SETI's main purpose is to act as a giant ear on behalf of the human race, pointing an array of ground-based telescopes towards space to listen for any signal from another world.
Kepler is a NASA spacecraft in Earth orbit that's main goal is to search for Earth-like planets. Such a planet would be located in the "Goldilocks" zone of a distant solar system—not too hot and not too cold—and could potentially be habitable by life as we know it. The Kepler mission is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-sized, rocky planets in or near the habitable zone of the star (sun) they orbit.
The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, is an automobile-sized rover that NASA is launching soon. The rover's onboard laboratory will study rocks, soils, and other geology in an effort to detect the chemical building blocks of life (e.g., forms of carbon) on Mars and will assess what the Martian environment was like in the past to see if it could have harbored life.

A last point: Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset 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.

But that's all statistics and speculation. The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.

Relevant Links:

SETI
NASA Kepler Mission
NASA Mars Science Laboratory

Check out this response on We the People.

plausible deniability thats what i i gather from the above statement . lol ya your right g-man we are all mushrooms and believe your shit .the fact that they think we buy this shit is comical at best .sorry next

Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:22 am » by **Ghost32**

Just think they have email address' and IP's of all the people that signed the petition too.

Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:38 am » by **Phoenix rising**

ghost32 wrote:Just think they have email address' and IP's of all the people that signed the petition too.

Well i'm shitting my pants now u'v reminded me of that, can we all now expect a visit from the men in black :lol:

Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:43 am » by **Headhunter711**

Good Morning to All...
The problem here is that people are asking for information from the wrong source, and the actual information gatherers have no constitutional requirement to give information to the public. :alien:

Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:46 am » by **Kayla**

Lmao, they really don't give a shit what anybody thinks, they will continue to say this bullcrap for as long as they can.

Sat Nov 05, 2011 5:52 am » by **Chickamaka**

"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet"

Sure you can trust the government... Just ask an Indian