Scientist have claimed that intelligent extraterrestrial aliens would be found within two decades.
Seth Shostak, from the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, was speaking to Futurism at the Worlds Fair Nano NY, a festival held in New York, when he “bet everybody a cup of coffee” that the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials will be confirmed within the next two decades.
Shostak said he had “very little” to say about our current understanding about the existence of alien life “because we haven’t found any” yet.
However, he added that simple extraterrestrial lifeforms may be found in the near future: “We may find microbial life—the kind you’d find in the corners of your bathtub. We may find that a lot sooner, but that remains to be seen. But it’s gonna happen, I think, in your lifetime.”