Do you think NASA will report that there is life on other planets if they actually find it?

Question

How would this information affect the world that we live in today?

Would NASA jeopardize our current state by withholding the finding of life outside our planet?

Answer 1

Nasa would report it in a heart beat. The US Government on the other hand would probably try to silence it. But not because of any fancy conspiracy. Just common sense. how many orginizations/people would go nuts. riots. murder mayhem. People screaming its the apocolypse yadda yadda yadda.
not to mention nut jobs killing religious people for feeling they were lied to all this time.

Answer 2

Absolutely, without a doubt, I believe that NASA would announce it as soon as they were certain enough of the discovery to avoid embarrassment.

Initially, they would sit on it, of course. Who wants to be the idiot that claimed there was life (microbial or plant) on Mars? Or, even worse, that there was intelligent life just 100 light years away? They would never live it down.

So after verification and peer review, there would be an announcement, IMHO.

Why do I believe this?

The first answer is money. The discovery of any microbial or plant life in the solar system would encourage the U.S. Congress to provide more funding for exploration. Any discovery of intelligent life would encourage funding of research on new propulsion systems in order to go for a visit.

The second answer is that it would impossible to keep a secret that big.

Answer 3

You are obviously into conspiracies. Give it up.

Also, the most anyone could ever say on extra-solar planets is that they are "in the zone".

So many ignorant people are interpreting that as there almost being life out there. The stars are much too far away to get anything more definitive than "the planet is in the zone".

Answer 4

they are in a position to't help some thing there is not any data for. yet they do help the theory that the prospect exists of existence forming on yet another planet besides Earth if the planet is interior the famous guy or woman's habitable zone and would have liquid water. in any different case they does no longer have set probes to hunt for existence on Mars.

Answer 5

we live in a competitive world, if scientist believe that they can increase the amount of funding, or if someone can get famous for discovering someting like that?.. most definitely..

as for life coming here from other worlds, well, lets say its pretty much sci-fi...

in reality, it would take a huge amount of energy and time to go from one solar system to another. specially if there is no edivedence of intelligent life near by.. the closest star is 4 light years away.. even traveling at the speed of light, which is impossible, would take over four years.... to travel that distance.....just to travel 1/4 the speed of light would take an enourmous undertaking....

Answer 6

'Life' should be distinct from 'Intelligent Life'.
I suspect some of the moons in our Solar System may contain single cell or basic life forms like a fish, if not in our Solar System then certainly out there some where.
I can't see the discovery of a herring as creating a world wide panic attack.

Answer 7

You bet, in an instant. However. the first life discovered on other planets will likely be single celled. Even so, that would still be a great discovery.

Answer 8

Yes they would! With Glee.

But what if they found an old issue of "Life" magazine on Mars? Would they report that?

If Martians visited the White House, would they report that they found intelligent life?

Answer 9

In your best dream, info like that could not be kept secret. Finding other life would mean much bigger budgets for NASA.

Answer 10

If at all if NASA is gonna find extra terrestial life..they won let it out..becoz if they did so..people will start creatin big time rumours and hoax and this mite create panic ...

Even if they let this news out but only gradually not watever they find...