The search for Alien life

 

The search for Alien life

Our professor, Mr. Premarathne has written an Article mixed in all terms of Astronomy, English and The limited knowledge of us humans. You definitely want to read his fantastic idea and his talented essay.

The search for alien life 

Well, we all know it is still unknown about an extra-terrestrial life form or simply aliens. Even finding a tiny microbe out of our world will be a turning point of humans. But we are not searching for microbes, we are searching for life forms that are truly mind boggling. Some people believe that aliens are continuously visiting our home planet. We can’t say that statement is false because nobody knows if there are aliens that have more advance technology than us and visiting other planets in the universe. Our view of aliens is more likely mythical. Those humanoid creatures that are abducting people and use them to experiments sounds entirely bound up but we should not blame because again “nobody knows”. In my view I see aliens entirely different. They could be extremely advanced and have no use of brain experiments. In our search of aliens, we search mostly every light from the bright and dark universe. If those life forms ever made a light extremely powerful that can be seen hundreds of light years away, there is a chance of humans ever made a contact with aliens. In the past people burned huge rings of fire in the Sahara Desert to signal our presence. In 19th centaury huge mirrors were places reflecting sunlight to the space. But none of them was even enough to be seen from Mars. But we got other efficient ways to communicate and those are Radio waves. Radio waves can travel through any obstacle in the speed of light. The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence or SETI is now mostly using radio waves to their researches. If we can receive a message in the form of radio waves, our 60-year-old research will make an enormous change of way of our imagination. 

Now, our search has become an extraordinary set of imagination. We don’t seek for signals but see directly into their technology. If they are highly complex and developed than us, they might need an enormous amount of energy. As a result, they could make a whole star go dark. They might be living on spaceships and use their own home planet to mine energy but not ordinary mining, mega structures that produce unimaginable amount of energy. But they might not be mining planets but mining asteroids. Asteroids are rich in resources and can produce energy twice or more when comparing planets. If some life forms passed the boundary of the planetary mining, they are in the next level of engineering. Using the whole energy produced by a star. Collecting energy from stars can range up to even thousand times than planetary mining. For this we have suggested a marvelous mega structure that could collect all the energy from a star and make the star entirely invisible from universe, the Dyson Sphere. The best way to detect a mega structure like this is to look out for the things that are missing in the night sky. There are huge voids in some places in the universe that scientists suggest the empty spaces in universe but who knows if one of those was a collection of alien mega structures that has made several stars go dark. If their need of energy goes further, they have to pass to the next level. A life form that consumes all the energy produced by their galaxy. This type of extra-terrestrial life form is really hard to imagine that consumes unbelievable amount of energy that could also be one of those huge voids in the night sky.

If those life forms are long-gone, if we really are alone, then it is the chance of being the masters of the universe ourselves by overcoming great obstacles and starting truly a brilliant era of humanity. And remember- “While there’s life, there’s hope”. 

By,
Sasen Premarathne