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NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot

posted by mrpg on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the in-space-things-are-relative dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Dr Colombano told Califoria's SETI-backed Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop back in March that scientists need to broaden their idea of what an extra-terrestrial would like like.

'I simply want to point out the fact that the intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn't already) might not be at all be produced by carbon based organisms like us,' his report read.

He added that scientists must 're-visit even our most cherished assumptions', which has implications for everything from an alien's lifespan to its height.

'The size of the 'explorer' might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity,' he says.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6457259/NASA-expert-says-alien-life-visited-Earth.html

Also at Tiny aliens may have visited us and we just didn't know: NASA scientist

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 08 2018, @03:03PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 08 2018, @03:03PM (#771538) Journal

    We've had visitors before. Ask any Irishman. They told everyone, and no one believed them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @03:27PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @03:27PM (#771542)

    We can thank our lucky charms.

    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday December 08 2018, @06:08PM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday December 08 2018, @06:08PM (#771607) Journal

      They're magically capricious!

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      Life's a beach...
      and then you dry.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:11AM (#771746)

    Ah, the No True Irishman fallacy rears it's ginger head...

    I for one welcome our miniscule overlords.