Ever since space exploration experienced this great boom in the 1950s, finding extraterrestrial life has undoubtedly been one of its main goals. Very interesting works have been written on this topic and theories that have given a lot to think about have also been developed. Personally, one of my favorites is the one that focuses on a seemingly simple but deeply complicated question: Would we really be prepared to face the challenge of finding extraterrestrial life?

I do not want to grope, because that is not the point in this article, after all, but I am sure that most of our readers will already have all the implications of this question clear. Finding extraterrestrial life can lead our species to a golden age, if contact is positive for us, but also it could condemn us to slavery or lead to extinctionprovided that extraterrestrial life is hostile and more advanced than we are.

Finally, find extraterrestrial life It would be a lottery and an important risk that doesn’t support the debate, but that hasn’t changed its importance in space exploration, and now, thanks to China’s latest discovery, it seems we’ve been able to find signs of extraterrestrial life.

Extraterrestrial life on exoplanets, possibility

According to Bloomberg, they revealed narrowband electromagnetic signals The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, also known by the acronym in English as FAST, is located in the natural basin of Da Wo Dang. It is the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world, and the data it captures will always arouse great interest, even if this time the original message was deleted for unknown reasons.

Returning to the intercepted signals, these are different from those previously intercepted and are therefore being investigated, according to Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of the Alien Civilization Team, co-founded by Beijing Normal University, National Astronomical Observatory in Beijing, China. Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Berkeley. According to Zhang, they have already identified “suspicious” data in 2020 when processing signals from 2019 and they again found “strange” signals in data from 2022 after observing various exoplanetswhich are those planets that are outside our solar system.

These captured signals seem artificial, although experts call for calm to avoid the insane “hype.” In this sense, they clarified that they could be caused by radio interference and stated that their verification could take a long time. Zhang, on the other hand, also said that he disagreed with the theories that we should avoid contact with extraterrestrial life because of the potential danger it poses, but rather thought otherwise that we should look for it because it could help us survive when we can no longer stay on Earth.