For what purpose did the human brain evolve is a question that has puzzled scientists for decades.In 2010 Colin Blakemore, an Oxford neurobiologist argued that a mutation in the brain of a single human being 200,000 years ago turned intellectually able primates into a super-intelligent species that would conquer the world. Homo sapiens appears to be a genetic accident.
We live in a universe where matter is distributed in a hundred billion galaxies, each containing a hundred billion stars, made up of quantum fields where space and time are not existent, that manifest themselves in the form of particles, such as electrons and photons, or as waves. Tucked into the 14-billion-year history of this vast observable universe with 100 trillion planets is a pale blue dot teeming with life and a technological civilization created by a strange species known as homo sapiens.
In 2019, the Gallup Poll decided to directly ask the American public about their experiences with UFOs, for one simple reason: semi-credible evidence of their existence was back in the news following Navy reports of pilots seeing bizarre planes traveling at at hyperspeed. The company conducted two surveys, in June and August of 2019. They found that a majority of Americans—60 percent—think UFO sightings can be explained by human activity or natural phenomena vs a full 33 percent think some UFO sightings can be attributed to alien visitation.
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“I do indeed suspect there are other intelligent civilizations in the galaxy – we just need to look!” said astrophysicist Andrew Siemion, principal investigator for the Breakthrough Listen program and director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center, in an email to dailygalaxy.com.
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