Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2019

29 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019 ASTROBIOLOGY placed at even greater distances could, at most, realize that there is life developing on Earth, but that probably no species has de- veloped enough to become technological. So why go there, with all the sacrifices the journey entails? Summing up, those who see in, at least, a part of the UAPs the incursions of aliens must nec- essarily claim that they come from stars very close to us, a possibility that in the coming years the new telescopes that will become operational will be able to definitively exclude. It is infinitely unlikely that there is another technological civilization just around the cor- ner to our house. So, if the laws of physics will not be rev- olutionized, in the next decade the acronyms UAP, UFO and their analogues may refer to everything except extraterres- trial visitors. In the meantime, everyone is free to continue believing in fairy tales. takes place “today” with the arrival of 200- year-old spectral signatures, they cannot already be here, because in reality they still have yet to take off. Possible civilizations ! WHAT DID I TELL YOU? SAME TIME, HAVE YOU SEEN? MY GOSH ! THE PENTAGON HAS ALLOCATED $ 20 MILLION FOR US! BUT AS USUAL, WE RECEIVED NOTHING ! IT ’ S CERTAINLY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN !