This week's Question: Two recent ePetitions on a "We the People" petition site asked the government to acknowledge the presence of aliens. A reply from a research assistant from the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy emphasized that the government was actively looking for aliens, through the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, the Kepler telescope and upcoming Mars science laboratory, but hadn't found any yet. "The odds of us making contact with any of them —especially any intelligent ones—are extremely small, given the distances involved," he said. Do you agree? Given the distances involved, is the discovery of intelligent alien life unlikely? RESULTS
- YES
- 68.28%
- NO
- 31.72%
