{"id":375065,"date":"2010-02-26T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23426"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:41:10","slug":"royal-astronomer-%e2%80%98aliens-may-be-staring-us-in-the-face%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375065","title":{"rendered":"Royal Astronomer: \u2018Aliens May Be Staring Us In The Face\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20194\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 20px;margin-right: 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/266px-Alienigena-133x300.jpg\" alt=\"alien\" width=\"120\" height=\"270\" \/>By Heidi Blake for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/space\/7289507\/Royal-astronomer-Aliens-may-be-staring-us-in-the-face.html\">Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lord Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen, said the existence of extra terrestrial life may be beyond human understanding.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks shortly after hosting the national science academy\u2019s first conference on the possibility of alien life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could be staring us in the face and we just don\u2019t recognise them. The problem is that we\u2019re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can\u2019t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can\u2019t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[continues in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/space\/7289507\/Royal-astronomer-Aliens-may-be-staring-us-in-the-face.html\">Telegraph<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Heidi Blake for the Telegraph: Lord Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen, said the existence of extra terrestrial life may be beyond human understanding. He made the remarks shortly after hosting the national science academy\u2019s first conference on the possibility of alien life. \u201cThey could be staring us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}