NASA Chief Predicts Alien Contact In The Next 10 Years, But Scientist Warns There’ll Be Monsters With No Resemblance To ET

NASA’s chief scientist believes humans will make contact with alien life forms in less than a decade, but a fellow space scientist has voiced his concerns that when we do, they’ll be less like a cute and cuddly little ET and more like a monstrous beast which stalks the darkest corners of our nightmares.

Speaking in a web-streamed panel discussion, NASA’s chief scientist, Ellen Stofan, voiced her belief that evidence of life beyond earth will be discovered within a decade.

“We know where to look. We know how to look. In most cases we have the technology, and we’re on a path do implementing it… so we’re definitely on the road.”

The Mirror reports that Stofan’s views were echoed by NASA colleague and former astronaut John Grunsfeld.

“We’re one generation from finding life in our own solar system, which could be on an icy moon or on Mars. We could also find life on an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star within the same timeframe.

“We know that there’s liquid water below the surface of Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede and that there was water across much of Mars. The Curiosity rover also discovered organic molecules on the surface of the Red Planet – the raw materials for Earth-like life.

“Then we’ve got a whole load of exoplanets that have been discovered in nearby constellations by the Kepler telescope – some of which might be habitable.”

Of course, making contact with alien life forms is one thing, whether it’s a wise choice to do so it something else entirely. Many leading lights in the world of science have suggested that it is a very risky idea, and have argued that instead of actively seeking to contact aliens, we should be keeping an eye out for them instead.

Stephen Hawking argues that if humans do make contact with aliens, they might choose to slaughter and enslave humanity as a means of effectively colonising us.

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the American Indians.”

The views of Hawking are reinforced by astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who fears that aliens might just be as greedy, exploitative, and violent as man and stressed that contacting them out of the blue would be a seriously bad idea.

“We don’t give our address to members of our own species whom we don’t know. So the urge to give our home address to aliens? That’s audacious.”

Fergus Simpson, a space scientist at the University of Barcelona has actually taken the step of using mathematical formulas to predict the size of extra-terrestrials and is not keen on what his nightmarish research has discovered.

“Most species are expected to exceed 300kg in body mass. Similar to that of a polar bear.”

Add a taste for human blood and an innate cruelty to the equation and we have something that is pretty far removed from ET.