Put out an extra place setting for dinner tonight

The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society has prepared a report for the January/February 2005 issue which deals with some recent discoveries/theory’s in astronomy and physics which make extraterrestrial visitation seem a likely occurrence.

“We are in the curious situation today that our best modern physics and astrophysics theories predict that we should be experiencing extraterrestrial visitation, yet any possible evidence of such lurking in the UFO phenomenon is scoffed at within our scientific community,” contends astrophysicist Bernard Haisch.

Haisch along with physicists James Deardorff, Bruce Maccabee and Harold Puthoff make their case in the JBIS article: “Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation”.

The scientists point to two key discoveries made by Australian astronomers and reported last year that there is a “galactic habitable zone” in our Milky Way Galaxy. And more importantly that Earth’s own star, the Sun, is relatively young in comparison to the average star in this zone — by as much as a billion years.

Therefore, the researchers explain in their JBIS article that an average alien civilization would be far more advanced and have long since discovered Earth. Additionally, other research work on the supposition underlying the Big Bang — known as the theory of inflation — shores up the prospect, they advise, that our world is immersed in a much larger extraterrestrial civilization.

Makes me feel much more comfortable talking about the anal probe in mixed company.

link via drudge