NASA Scientist: 'No one's out there,' We're likely alone in the Milky Way - disinformation

NASA Scientist: 'No one's out there,' We're likely alone in the Milky Way - disinformation

NASA Scientist: ‘No one’s out there,’ We’re likely alone in the Milky Way

By majestic on September 25, 2015 in News

Could it really be that we’re all alone in our galaxy? The South China Morning Post reports that William Borucki, a highly-respected former NASA scientist, says there’s no other life out there:

William Borucki

An internationally-revered Nasa scientist whose work
helped discover the first Earth-sized habitable planet outside our solar
system said the evidence so far points to us being alone in our galaxy.

William Borucki, the principal investigator of Nasa’s historic 2009
Kepler mission, was awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy in
Hong Kong yesterday and said he planned to donate US$100,000 of his
prize money to the battle against climate change.

But in an interview with the South China Morning Post, Borucki said
his work on the Kepler mission discovering habitable planets made the
silence in our galaxy all the more unusual.

“We have a galaxy full of 10 billion planets, in habitable zones,
roughly earth-size, [but] no visits, no communications we’ve picked up,”
he said. “How can that be?”

“Up till now it was just an intellectual question. It isn’t anymore.
There could be 10 billion civilisations or none. The evidence certainly
is none … the evidence says, no one’s out there.”…

[continues at the South China Morning Post]