This Existential Threat Doesnt Even Make It On My Top Twenty Dangers Facing Humanity: How close are we to an alien invasion? On July 14, NASA held a panel discussion regarding the search for potentially habitable worlds and the existence of life on other planets. The panelists included some prestigious names — John Grunsfeld, an astronaut who personally repaired the Hubble Space Telescope multiple time while it was in orbit; John Mather, the 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize for physics; Sara Seager, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2013 MacArthur fellow; Dave Gallagher, the director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Matt Mountain, an astrophysicist who holds professorial roles at both Johns Hopkins and Oxford University. In short, these scientists spent an hour and a half talking about the advancements NASA has made in coming closer to finding life outside of earth. dailycal.org/2014/07/29/close-alien-invasion/
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