Has Bigfoot Been Found At Last, Or Is It A Complete Hoax...

Bigfoot may have been found at last? Here's an amazing video taken by an eye witness and the footage is definitely 55% intriguing and is just stunning (if true?). Because I see another person in the video, just up a bit and to the left of the waterfall. He or she is totally looking at the cameraman! So this could well be a fake and no-one has spotted the person stood in the shot, just behind the bush which is up to his or hers mid waist. So this is probably busted now, by me?

Here's what the wet wipes have said about the video;

A possible sighting of legendary Bigfoot has been captured in Indonesia The footage shows a large creature walking through a mountain range It glistens in the sunshine in front of a large cascading waterfall The mythical creature was believed to have lived in North America

It's supposed to be a mythical creature hiding somewhere in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, but has Bigfoot finally been captured on video in Indonesia? Footage shot in the south east Asian country appears to show an enormous creature walking upright through a waterfall and rolling green hillside. While on the somewhat distorted clip it can't be determined exactly what the creature is, some conspiracy theorists are believing it may finally be the real deal.

The video begins with a wide shot of a stunning Indonesian mountain range. All appears still and quiet until suddenly there's movement to the left of a waterfall. What looks to be the large Bigfoot emerges out of nowhere, walking in front of the cascading water.


After just a short few seconds the large figure - which appears to be glistening in the sun - disappears from view, but is incredibly forever recorded on camera. While the Daily Star reports that some think the video is legitimate, others are a bit more skeptical.

Appearing only for a few seconds, the large creature may actually be the real deal according to some conspiracy theorists. The unidentified beast can be seen glistening in the sunshine.

Some believe that judging from the height of the creature in comparison to the waterfall, the video is just one of hundreds of fakes littered across the internet. It is unclear when the legend of Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, was first created, however most sightings are attributed to being black bears. Adding to the intrigue over this video however is the fact that the large bears are not found in Indonesia.

BUSTED!

      

Holy Cow Alien Life Is Caught Running Away From Mars Curiosity Rover When Drilling Started

Wow!
This was my first impression's when I saw this and I just thought straight away that my readers need to see these Mars images and read it for themselves? So I set about getting my research ready and compiled this post for you. I hope you like this? We have to give a big thank you to Mars Alive for his really good eye for finding this anomaly. I always quote the first place I find my materials. Like for instance SOL 882 is a group of images not just one image, which I learned.

Here is a link to all the images of SOL 882 in the group.

Mars Curiosity Rover's Image

Scroll down further to see the NASA SOL 882 settings and other details/stats for people like us (nerds) Whom love the intricate particles of details because it's there that most conspiracies live and are found, because keeping up a good lie (however you look at it) means the keeping up of appearances and if you start to waver or fade a little, it all unravels.

Even though NASA won't admit this, they will however tell us how they made a mistake? Like how they are under such strain they sometimes make a few mistakes in the details, but we know that's where a conspiracy starts off. Where it takes root. Doh! Here's another Mars image with an anomaly in the frame.

I'm going to give you as much details as I can handle before I started to yawn, ha.
UFO Sightings Hotspot this is the direct link to that post;

You can just make out a creature at high speed

On January 29, 2015 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat rock on Mars and collected a sample from its interior. Images were taken by the Front Hazcam right and the Front Hazcam left on board the rover and published on page SOL 882 of NASA’s website Mars Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Follow think to SOL 882 Raw Image page, it is fascinating.

Scroll down for video;

Tiny Creatures found on Mars

At first glance, it seems to be standard images showing the robotic arm which carried out a drill but if you take a closer look at the images taken by the Front Hazcam right you will notice a very small being, what could be an insect. ‘Mars Alive’ who discovered the anomaly made a time-lapse footage in which you can see that the insect is moving during the drilling activities.

Although some people suggest the anomaly is just a piece of debris due to vibration from the drill, I'm not sure if it is just a piece of debris because the legs of the insect, maybe a bug, ant or spider, are clearly visible and it looks like it runs away from the drilling activities. A tiny living creature on Mars or just debris, here is the time-lapse footage.

If this is indeed true then it opens up so many questions like for instance;
Was NASA aware they might literally come across life on Mars? Did they anticipate finding life on the red planet? Have they put anything in place to go after this creature or are they going to bury their heads in the "Red Sand" and hope no-one comes looking for answers? Well, my question is this;
Have you identified the creature?

No doubt your questions will be totally different and maybe more probing and more specific? Was it a creature? Was just a piece of dirt being pushed away by the drilling process? These are the questions that we ask and the questions they don't like.

Drilling holes on Mars

Below is the video I have linked to aswell to the channel where it was found. It was found on Mars Alive Youtube Channel. I will put some interesting information just after the video.

NASA's JPLWebsite.
Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, on January 29, 2015, Sol 882 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 12:26:44 UTC. When this image was obtained, the focus motor count position was 13021. This number indicates the internal position of the MAHLI lens at the time the image was acquired.

This count also tells whether the dust cover was open or closed. Values between 0 and 6000 mean the dust cover was closed; values between 12500 and 16000 occur when the cover is open. For close-up images, the motor count can in some cases be used to estimate the distance between the MAHLI lens and target. For example, in-focus images obtained with the dust cover open for which the lens was 2.5 cm from the target have a motor count near 15270.

Just a few of SOL 882 images

If the lens is 5 cm from the target, the motor count is near 14360; if 7 cm, 13980; 10 cm, 13635; 15 cm, 13325; 20 cm, 13155; 25 cm, 13050; 30 cm, 12970. These correspond to image scales, in micrometers per pixel, of about 16, 25, 32, 42, 60, 77, 95, and 113. Most images acquired by MAHLI in daylight use the sun as an illumination source. However, in some cases, MAHLI's two groups of white light LEDs and one group of longwave ultraviolet (UV) LEDs might be used to illuminate targets.

When Curiosity acquired this image, the group 1 white light LEDs were off, the group 2 white light LEDs were off, and the ultraviolet (UV) LEDS were off. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS See the Latest from Mars! Curiosity sends back raw images for current and prior Sols based on commands sent by the mission team. The rover uses orbiters to relay back a lot of its data, and maximizes each opportunity when they pass by overhead.

Curiosity stores any data not transmitted on-board. The rover will send back this data on later Sols according to the mission team's science and engineering priorities. That means these pages update whenever data comes back. Images are filed in the Sol the rover took the picture, not the Sol on which the rover sent the image back to Earth. Check back frequently for more discoveries from Mars!

Black spaces typically mean partial data has arrived, but Curiosity will fill in the rest of the data as soon as possible. If a Sol is not listed, that means the rover did not acquire any images on that day, or has not yet sent images back for that Sol. Total images for SOL 882 are 260 in total.

So;
There you go. A thorough assessment of the SOL 882 images and here can see why anyone would think that the Rover had indeed uncovered a creature of sorts? As always, you choose what to believe and we will keep putting stuff in front of you. Peace, Tim Lewis

Ways To Tell That The Earth Is NOT FLAT Or Is It Full Of Crap

These are not my view of the world and is from an online piece I found? You know one of the conformist regime wet wipes. If I want to say we live in a dome surrounded by water, then's it's up to me, right? I have given a few of my thoughts but not them all on this matter. Please read on.

Non believers view of the earth

Apparently this is their rhetoric's;

Earth From The ISS The curvature of the Earth is visible in this 2014 photo, which ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti snapped from the International Space Station.

1. The Moon
Now that humanity knows quite positively that the Moon is not a piece of cheese or a playful god, the phenomena that accompany it (from its monthly cycles to lunar eclipses) are well-explained. It was quite a mystery to the ancient Greeks, though, and in their quest for knowledge, they came up with a few insightful observations that helped humanity figure out the shape of our planet.

Aristotle (who made quite a lot of observations about the spherical nature of the Earth) noticed that during lunar eclipses (when the Earth’s orbit places it directly between the Sun and the Moon, creating a shadow in the process), the shadow on the Moon’s surface is round. This shadow is the Earth’s, and it’s a great clue on the spherical shape of the Earth.
(my thought is doh, its because the moon is round of course it will look like that, idiot).

2. Ships and the Horizon
If you've been next to a port lately, or just strolled down a beach and stared off vacantly into the horizon, you might have, perhaps, noticed a very interesting phenomenon: approaching ships do not just “appear” out of the horizon (like they should have if the world was flat), but rather emerge from beneath the sea. But – you say – ships do not submerge and rise up again as they approach our view (except in “Pirates of the Caribbean”, but we are hereby assuming that was a fictitious movie). The reason ships appear as if they “emerge from the waves” is because the world is not flat: it’s round.

I've already had enough of this drivel and can't abide anymore. The auther has clearly been smoking crack or drinking since 9am? Here is the flat earther's view (us).

Up until around the 14th Century, people believed the Earth was flat and if you sailed too far, you would fall over the edge. Fast forward to right now and what are known as “flat earthers” pretty much believe the same theory. Now it seems the flat earthers (us) are reportedly going one step further, with one member of their society — who might possibly have binge-watched the science fiction show Under The Dome — believing we are enclosed in a giant, glass dome. 

This immense glass dome apparently prevents us from leaving Earth. Reportedly said dome is high enough to allow planes to fly, but, for instance, when SpaceX Falcon 9 exploded in the air back in June, they say it may have crashed into the invisible dome. Presumably the glass dome also prevents us all from falling off the edge of the world. Viewing any NASA video relating to the International Space Station on YouTube attracts thousands of comments from members of the flat earther society.

From the Inquisitr.com
According to them (us), NASA is using CGI to create those wonderful images of Earth from space. In other words to them it’s all completely fake. International Space Station? Doesn't exist. The Curiosity rover? Merely a vehicle beetling around in some reddish desert on Earth and not an amazing vehicle discovering the science of Mars.

Almost without fail, these comments tend to lean towards expletives and insulting words, like for example “balltards,” referring to the “ball earthers” and with no genuine scientific evidence to back them up. Ironically, as reported in the Express, the Enclosed World website on which the dome theory is posted was created by a man who was attempting to debunk the flat earth theory, but who ended up getting caught up in the craziness too.

Mark Sargent is an IT specialist from Boulder, Colorado, and back in 2014, he started looking into (his words) “what is no doubt the most ridiculous conspiracy ever, called (the) ‘Flat Earth Theory.'” However, after Sargent did some “extensive research” he reportedly became a convert and now fully supports the flat earth theory.

Early this year, Sargent released a series of YouTube videos titled “Flat Earth Clues” which ask the question: “Is it possible that we are all living in a Truman show enclosed structure, thousands of miles wide?” Sargent theorizes that when man first attempted space flight.

They discovered this dome and then found it necessary to hide this from the public ever since by creating amazing CGI effects, faking the moon landing's, the International Space Station is a piece of fiction from total dick heads and more. It all makes one wonder how on Earth (excuse the pun) Spain recently got bombarded with several pieces of space junk, as reported recently on the Inquisitr.

Or was this just a failed experiment from the NASA lacky's and toadies From the European Space Agency? Is this a world wide conspiracy? We know it is! NASA spends more money on film equipment and Walkers crisp's than on satellites, maybe? Probably? It wouldn't surprise me!

Twat's the lot of them! I have complete contempt for them, because they are KNOWN to be liars in very high positions and the kids, the adults and even teachers look to them for answers and they lie without haste! And you get no respect from me for that!

CGI lies

Eric Dubay is another flat earther theorist, who runs the website The Atlantean Conspiracy. Dubay, 33, reportedly seeks to “expose the New World Order,” saying we have been lied to all our lives because we have been lied to since forever. “We have been taught lies, contrary to all common sense and life experiences, that the seemingly motionless, flat Earth beneath our feet is actually a massive moving ball, spinning through space at over 1,000 miles per hour… but that you feel and experience none of it.” I call B/S on that one.

It is absolutely laughable and a piece of fiction being peddled by known gangsters and liars from government sanctioned authorities left over from the cold war (The moon hoax in this respect). It has been told by NASA through wet wipes (newspapers on the take) that we i.e. Human beings went to the moon and planted a US flag 6 times on it which in fact was a complete 2 fingers diss to Russia and nothing more. There was a system in place to bankrupt Russia and to get them in to fighting a fictitious space race.

The US knew that man couldn't get to the moon let alone land on it, but made the USSR buy in to it by giving JFK's amazing speech which set in motion a whole host of slight of hand experiments. JFK got shot when he grew a conscience and wanted to call a halt to it, but that dick head Nixon kept it going after Johnson. JFK wasnt even dead an hour before that shit stepped in to his shoes! Bet you did not know that, did you? It's true, not even an hour on board Airforce One!

Why did all the moon landings start and END with Nixon within 6 years or so? because it is all a lie which he fully supported and backed to bankrupt and kill all Russians. If you look in to his anti-communism contempt you'll see a total loser and Nixon was a Nazi prick.

he also knew about Aliens and the Alien agenda here on earth to swap humans for technology, but that's another story for another day. That'll be a good rant and rave by me, I enjoy exposing liars and corrupt people. It makes for a nice day in the park for me. It should be told, it should be said, liars should be outed especially people whom abuse their powers!

An amazing view and an amazing belief

From the Inquisitr;
Dubay, a 33-year-old Yoga and Wing Chun teacher living in Thailand, then goes on about a “mysterious force” called gravity which prevents everything falling or flying off the “spinning ball Earth.” The flat earther thinks it strange that gravity is strong enough to keep people, the oceans and the atmosphere tightly bound to the surface, but is just “weak enough to allow bugs, birds and planes to take off with ease.” So readers, do you believe we live on a flat earth enclosed in a glass dome and that there is no such thing as man’s efforts in space? Let us know below please.
[Image via NASA]

OMG everyday something blows my mind everytime I read more in to the flat earth debate? I never knew that about bug's. See what I mean, it makes sense that gravity is a force that's "man made" and that what keeps everything on the flat earth is... Something? I have ideas and theories but not what I am going to share today. I'm sure I will learn more as I go-on and I will be more comfortable typing them there. I don't do this to get mocked or trolled, I do this because I truly believe in the flat earth theory.

I am leaving it there for now, I have given you some links and all I ask is that you read them and make your own mind up? In a true democratic way I have given links for and against the theory.

Get On The Floor Bitch! Is Probably What Was Shouted at These 2 Idiots, They Have permission To SHOOT YOU!

Hold it right there you idiots

This is a classic "fooled them" scenario gone horribly wrong! You and your buddy look at a map and think "bro, I know a way in that they don't know about"? It's right then that you need to either;

A) Tell him to fuck right off?

B) Reassess your life insurance?

C) Wonder if your "bro" is either mentally unstable or just out to kill you?

Go with the 4th option which is to politely tell your well meaning "bro" not to call round again unless he's with an appropriate adult? He's gonna get you killed 100% for sure. Just humour him with an "imagine this and -imagine that" then put the bottle down and sleep it off or knock him out if he persists with wanting to get you killed at Area 51?

Do not do what these retards did and get straight on to their high powered motorbikes and head straight for the world's probably most heavily guarded "top secret" military base in the whole frickin world? Doh, I really mean doh! If you want to see an Alien underground military base then let some other fool on the net do it?

Don't think oh that's a great thing to do, or it's the best idea bro's ever had and don't he'll ever have one this good again? Definitely do not just drive past shoot to kill signs, with a free spirit like your on a holiday in India just checking out the locals and their weird ways you effing idiots!

Fuck that with a baseball bat! Do what we do and just suspect, think and research it but don't go and try to get yourself killed in the process you moron X's 2. We all know it's a given that there's an Alien secret base there? Hack NASA, hell hack the NSA, that's where you'll get all kinds of proof? like Gary McKinnon did.

All you got was all your camera equipment on you and at home plus in your car and your holiday home seized, and for what? A stupid video of you looking like a retard on steroids with crocks on. I have to show it don't I because if I don't show it, people will think I'm making it all up because no-one would be that stupid... right? Wrong!

The video;

So I'm gonna ad some still's from the video and a top online media's response to this. you've read my response, let's read what they think?

Total mugs

I mean if they uploaded this to Youtube with the thoughts of getting loads of subscribers and applauses of right on "BRO" then I think your even dafter then I thought?

You nearly got shot, they have a shoot first policy? Then asks questions, but not to you. Your family! They won't ask you a single question because you'll already be dead, think about that?

Shoot to kill sign

THE RISKY WAYS YOU CAN GET CLOSE TO AREA 51

Area 51 is located in the southern desert of Nevada in an area known as Groom Lake. There are private residences near the base, but the owners have been in constant legal battles with the government due to security concerns. The closest unofficial access points are along the Nevada Extraterrestrial Highway. The road runs 98 miles south-east from Warm Spring's of Nevada. This is on Highway 6 to Highway 93. There are no designated entrances to the site, aside from the front gate.

The closest civilians can get is the 'Warning' signs on dirt roads leading to the base. This should at the very least be a big advert to just turn back! Not a please go forward until you encounter a nice polite staff member?
Here is a dodgy looking map of the area;



In 2013, this map was published as part of a trove of CIA documents which confirmed that the secretive site does it exist. The base is highlighted in a square close to Nevada's border with California The front entrance is heavily guarded are kept under close surveillance using road sensors, cameras, and the careful watch of the Area 51 border security, known as the 'cammo dudes.'

All surveillance and communication is channelled through the security facility on Bald Mountain. It has been suggested that this base contains long-range cameras that can track all vehicle traffic on highway 375. The closest legal place to view Area 51 is from the top of Tikaboo Peak, a mountain over 26 miles from the base.

You can get closer, but run the risk of arrest or even death. In the past the base could be seen from places like Freedom Ridge and Whitesides–but these locations were annexed by the US Government in 1999. Observers have estimated that thousands of people are flown in from Las Vegas daily, to keep the base operational.

Other employees arrive at the base via a mysterious white bus, which makes stops at Ash Spring, Crystal Springs, and Alamo—where it parks at the courthouse every night. It arrives at a bus gate, then drives along an entrance road believed to be seven miles long The closest access that anyone without permission can get to Area 51 are the warning signs at the front gates.
(Source: VisitArea51.com)

Area 51 satellite view of the area

Area 51 is surrounded by hundreds of miles of desert which is laced with off-road trails. The closet route is the Extraterrestrial Highway (highlighted in blue). Reports suggest staff at the base monitor traffic on the road

Nellis AFB

Awesome sign

Extraterrestrial Highway is between Highway 6 and Highway 93 in Nevada, and is the closest main road to Area 51 They later uploaded footage taken on a helmet camera. The clip, entitled Held at Gunpoint by Camo-dudes, was published on YouTube yesterday and has already got 10,000 views with many viewers seeing it as proof that the government has something to hide at Area 51.

The bikers wrote:

"EVERYONE SHARE LIKE CRAZY, WE MIGHT HAVE TO TAKE THIS DOWN SOON DUE TO THE US GOVERNMENT!! DON'T LET THEM HIDE THIS!!

'This is raw and shot in real-time. Not fake or PHONY! We bring you the extreme footage shot by us. I don't know how long it will be up until the Gov't makes us take it down!' Camo-dudes is the unofficial name given to guards monitoring Area 51. It is not known if they are part of a military branch, or if they are contractors.

There is only one designated entrance to the site, the front gate. It is heavily guarded and kept under close surveillance using road sensors and cameras. The closest legal place to view Area 51 is from the top of Tikaboo Peak, a mountain over 26 miles from the base. In August Mail Online reported how a fleet of anonymous passenger aircraft at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas were serving America's most secret military base.

We will shoot you

Area 51

Area 51

Airport, with planes with no numbers

Home of the U-2 spy plane being tested

Are We Alone? Scientists Discuss The Search For Life And Odds Of E.T.

So you think that we are alone eh mon'Amie

Amazing SETI search for Aliens As more planets are discovered outside Earth's solar system, scientists must update estimations about the likelihood that life has formed somewhere other than Earth. Credit: ESO

SALT LAKE CITY — What are the odds that alien life exists elsewhere in the universe? At a major physics meeting, experts talked about updates to historic predictions about whether humans are alone in the cosmos. 

In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake wrote an equation to quantify the likelihood of finding a technologically advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe. The so-called Drake equation took into account factors such as the fraction of stars with planets around them and the fraction of those planets that would be hospitable to life.

In the years since 1961, scientists have updated the values in the Drake equation to incorporate newly acquired scientific information. For example, when Drake wrote his equation, scientists didn't know for sure if stars other than the sun had planets around them; now, researchers have evidence that most stars host planets. But science wasn't the only thing that influenced Drake — even current events factor into his calculation. [The Father of SETI: Q&A with Astronomer Frank Drake]

A lonely planet? At the heart of the search for life elsewhere in the universe is the question "Is Earth unique?" said Matthew Stanley, a science historian at New York University. Stanley discussed the history of humanity's evolving view of its place in the cosmos at the American Physical Society April Meeting on Saturday (April 16), in a session focused on recent discoveries in planetary science.

Humans once thought that the Earth was not only unique, but at the centre of the entire universe, Stanley said. Scientific investigations eventually showed that our planet is not even at the centre of its own solar system — it is one of seven other planets and many smaller bodies orbiting the sun.



On the other hand, in the last 20 years, scientists have discovered thousands of planets around other stars, and most of those planets are not like Earth (they're big and gaseous, like Jupiter). And most solar systems are not like Earth's solar system (big planets orbit close to their parent star, whereas in Earth's solar system, the large planets orbit further out).

Does this suggest that Earth is unique? Stanley said that currently, this question is difficult to answer, because telescopes that search for exoplanets have a selection bias toward large, gas giant planets that orbit very close to their parent stars. With current technologies, these types of planets are easier to detect. With that in mind, scientists are still trying to estimate how many rocky and Earth-like planets are out there.

By one estimation, for every grain of sand on Earth, there could be as many as 10 Earth-like planets in the universe. That's according to Peter Behroozi, a Hubble fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, who presented during the same session as Stanley. (Of course, it is important to remember that the universe is a very big place, and at the moment scientists can search for life only on planets within the Milky Way galaxy.)

An artist's concept of planet system Kepler-47. As scientists learn more about the cosmos, estimations of the likelihood that life exists beyond Earth are changing. Credit: NASA

Behroozi is working to link galaxy formation with planet formation. In a paper published in 2015 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Socity, he and his co-author showed that larger galaxies produce a greater number of Earth-like planets than do smaller galaxies such as, for example, the Milky Way. But because there are many more Milky Way-size galaxies in the universe, that's where most Earth-like planets in the universe should be found.

Thus, Earth's location in a Milky Way-size galaxy is not unique. This work not only helps scientists make estimations about how many planets are currently in the universe, but how many will form, assuming the universe continues to grow and evolve in the same way it has in the recent past. In the 2015 paper, Behroozi and his colleague look far ahead into the future and estimate that "the universe will form over 10 times more planets than currently exist." The paper summary goes on to say that there is "at least a 92 percent chance that we are not the only civilization the universe will ever have."



A historical perspective During his talk, Stanley re-traced the history of humanity's search for life beyond Earth, and showed how people are influenced by their own times and experiences when trying to predict what lies beyond this planet. William Herschel, an extremely influential 18th century astronomer, believed that intelligent beings lived on the sun. In the 19th century, mainstream astronomers thought they saw artificial canals built by intelligent creatures on Mars and Venus. Observations of those two planets and the sun by space-based probes have disproved those ideas, but new research has also given rise to updated ideas about how and where life could exist elsewhere in the universe.

For example, Stanley said, in the last 40 years, scientists have adopted a broader view of the conditions under which life can exist. So-called extremophiles are organisms that live in environments that were previously thought inhospitable, like at the bottom of the ocean, under the ice in Antarctica and in areas that receive high doses of radiation.

Stanley said many aspects of the Drake equation need updating not only with new scientific evidence, but also with new perspectives. (It should be noted that there are scientists and writers who have dedicated entire books to updating Drake's predictions.) Drake's equation, for example includes the variable L, which stands for "the length of time such [technologically advanced] civilizations release detectable signals into space," according to the SETI Institute.

When Drake wrote his equation in the 1960s, the value for L was thought of as the time between when a civilization discovered atomic energy and when that society managed to destroy itself through nuclear annihilation, Stanley said. "That's a totally reasonable way to think about the length of time of a civilization at the height of the Cold War," he said. "But there's been recent work … arguing that we shouldn't think about 'L' in terms of nuclear war. We should think about it in terms of environmental destruction. … That is, it's the time between the discovery of a steam engine and catastrophic climate change."

The equation also includes the variable fc, which represents the fraction of alien civilizations that "develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence" (such as radio communications or television broadcast signals sprayed out into space), the SETI Institute said. Today, however, many of Earth's communications no longer leak out into space, but are instead passed neatly between ground sources and satellites. There are still projects searching for leaky alien communications, and some scientists have proposed that humans should look for focused, laser-based systems used by alien civilizations to communicate between multiple planets or even multiple star systems. But Stanley's larger point is that to some extent, humanity can only look for alien civilizations that bear some resemblance to our own.

Today, the search for life on other planets is largely focused on telescopes that can study the atmospheres of distant planets and look for signs of biological processes. For example, high levels of methane (produced by many living organisms on Earth) or oxygen in a planet's atmosphere could be due to biological activity. And one day, researchers may be able to search for artificially created atmospheric elements. "So even if we bomb ourselves back to the Renaissance or the Stone Age, the evidence that a civilization once existed on our planet [would not be] erased," Behroozi told Space.com.

The composition of a planet's atmosphere could even reveal how an intelligent civilization that once lived managed to kill itself, Stanley said. It may be impossible for humans to be purely objective in their speculation about life the universe, Stanley said. He added that he thinks personal bias and human experiences will always infuse science, but that those things can also help lead to successes in science. Having different perspectives helps people look at things in new ways, which can lead to breakthroughs, he said.

That's why, he said, it's actually a good idea for scientists to "talk to people outside your field … listen to marginal people. Get a diversity of people, people from different backgrounds, different genders [and] different kinds of cultures. "I think it's actually helpful to embrace the fact that this is always how science is done," he said. "And to accept that everybody's different, everybody has weird ideas, and that's actually a source of strength rather than weakness."