British scientist says it is 'almost a racing certain' that

I don't know HAL, have you watched video's of Octopuses?  They are really intelligent.... carrying shells around with them to hide under to protect themselves from predators....   

www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-octopuses-smart/

Who knows what is out there on other planets, different forms of life we have no idea about..... there has always been lots of speculation..... and that is all we can really do until we go there and find out what is really there. 

the microhabitat that grew the life has been dubbed the 'Death Star' by researchers. © University of Aberdeen

Researchers have discovered the existence of life encased in tiny bubbles within sheets of ‘flammable ice’ in a potential breakthrough that could reveal how aliens exist on other planets.

Flammable ice occurs when ice traps methane in its molecular structure. An international team of researchers studying the phenomenon in the Sea of Japan made the startling discovery of life within the microscopic bubbles.

The discovery, which could have major implications for the likelihood of alien life elsewhere in the universe, was fortuitously made by a team investigating whether flammable ice is an energy source that emits less carbon than other fuels.

Despite incredibly harsh conditions, the microhabitats are grown by microbes within tiny bubbles of oil and water found in sheets of frozen gas and ice.

“In combination with the other evidence collected by my colleagues, my results showed that even under near-freezing temperatures, at extremely high pressures, with only heavy oil and saltwater for food-sources, life was flourishing and leaving its mark,” researcher Stephen Bowden, from the University of Aberdeen, said in a statement.

“It certainly gives a positive spin to cold dark places, and opens up a tantalizing clue as to the existence of life on other planets,” Bowden added.

So it turns out that all the freezing planets at the edge of every planetary system could host life with just ice and a little heat. The findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Or, just go search for them in places we've already been like the Moon, Mars, Titan, etc . ? 

Yes, very odd Hal. I was wondering about extremophiles especially with some of the stuff left behind and carried aboard the spacecrafts (despite decontamination). 

I was reading that (Betelgeuse) this morning on Spaceweather. It will be interesting to see what happens on and after the 21st. 

Everything is under control my friends..we're in good hands with the Space Force..And I'm glad you all mentioned Betelguese

deployment of two additional space age Rezonans-NE very high frequency artificial intelligence aided early warning phased-array radar systems in the Arctic will soon join the three others already in operation in this region atop our world, leaps into the extraordinary with a further notation that these radar systems able to detect aircraft flying at Mach 20 speeds (over 15,300 miles per hour) have been linked to the Planetary Defense Coordination Office that’s under the command of NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division—but whose exact reasons for this being so are mostly shrouded in a classified at the highest level “Of Special Importance” appendix to this report—the mind-blowing title of which is “The Betelgeuse Apocalypse”—a reference to the eleventh-brightest star in the night sky named Betelgeuse located in the Constellation of Orion that scientists the world over are now sounding grave warnings about as it mysteriously dims to insignificance for the first time in recorded history—and is the same Constellation of Orion that, on 30 December 1983, American scientists reported finding a mysterious heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system—a discovery explaining why Betelgeuse is dimming as this mysterious heavenly body blocks out its light—and in the decades since its discovery in 1983, has been accompanied by all of the planets in our solar system mysteriously heating up—most pronounced on the planet Mars where, in 2016, scientists declared its ice age was ending—and this week saw NASA releasing dramatic photographs of a polar ice cap on Mars collapsing—all of which comes at the same time astronomers from around the world are reporting mysterious clockwork radio signals are bombarding our planet from deep in outer space—and are “signals” coming from space that, likewise, were reported by one of human history’s greatest geniuses Nikola Tesla—who on Christmas Day, 25 December 1900, wrote an urgent letter to the American Red Cross stating: “I have observed electrical actions, which have appeared inexplicable. Faint and uncertain though they were, they have given me a deep conviction and foreknowledge that ere long all human beings on this globe, as one, will turn their eyes to the firmament above, with feelings of love and reverence, thrilled by the glad news: " Brethren! We have a message from another world, unknown and remote. It reads: one ... two ... three ...”.



in 1939, while his British nation was on the brink of World War II, mysteriously wrote, but never published, an 11-page essay he titled “Are We Alone In The Universe?”—thus making Churchill the first leader in modern history to opine about alien life on other planets, and saw him writing: “I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time”.

In the 33-years since President Reagan stunned world leaders into silence with his question: “And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us?”, this report concludes, the United States has rampaged across the globe with its military forces in what can only be described as a desperate search for “something”—exclusively targeting our world’s most ancient lands whose cultures reach back to the dawn of civilization—cultures whose myths and legends all describe their being begun by an alien race who live on a massive planet circling our Sun in the outermost reaches of our Solar System—a desperate search, however, now being ended by President Donald Trump—who like Winston Churchill and President Reagan is a polyphasic sleeper needing only 4-5 hours of sleep a day—thus making his sleep pattern a near match for Nikola Tesla whom Trump knows more about than any person alive—as after Tesla was found dead in January-1943 in his hotel room in New York City, the US government swooped in and took possession of all the property and documents from his room at the New Yorker Hotel, to include the plans for a powerful particle-beam weapon, known as the “Death Ray”, he said he invented—all of which was handed over to one of the smartest men in America at that time, Professor John G. Trump, Ph.D.—whom President Trump grew up at the knees of, and called “Uncle John”—and explains why, on 12 March 2018, President Trump, over the objections of his own Defense Department, set his sights firmly on outer space like President Reagan did and called for the creation of a Space Force—a call Trump followed, on 18 June 2018, with an executive order to make it so—and on 20 December 2019, saw this Space Force becoming the sixth branch of the US military—the undisputed leader of which is Commander-In-Chief President Donald Trump—that, in fact and reality, makes Trump human history’s first and only Planetary Space Force Commander—and if his past actions are a predictor of his future ones—shows that any illegal space aliens daring to attack our world have a vicious fight on their hands—or claws, or tentacles, or whatever they use.