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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If I said it, you would ignore it, but since he has
the credentials you will think it interesting, or you might not.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>#1<BR>Russian astronomers hope to find aliens within two decades<BR><BR>ST.
PETERSBURG. June 27 (Interfax) - Russian astronomers hope to find
extraterrestrial civilizations in 20 years, Director of the Russian Academy of
Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute Andrei Finkelstein told a Monday press
conference.<BR><BR>"The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of
atoms. There are fundamental laws, which apply to the entire universe. There is
life on other planets and we will find it in 20 years," he
said.<BR><BR>Finkelstein believes that aliens will look like earthlings: they
will have two legs, two arms and a head. "Possibly, they will have a different
color skin, but the same happens here. While we have been searching for
extraterrestrial civilians, we have been waiting for messages from space, not
the other way," he said.<BR><BR>About 1,000 exoplanets, i.e. planets circling
around stars like the Sun, have been found, and 10% of them resemble the Earth,
researchers said. There will be life on such planets if there is
water.<BR><BR>An international symposium on the search for extraterrestrial
civilizations opened at the Applied Astronomy Institute on Monday to sum up the
results of the 50-year-long search for alien life forms. The Project Passive
SETI was started up in 1960 to listen for possible signals from other
planets.<BR><BR>There is also the Active SETI program, in which radio signals
are being sent for contacting aliens. </DIV>
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