Quote:(Reuters) - Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted on Monday.

"The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms... Life exists on other planets and wee will find it within 20 years," Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Speaking at an international forum dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, Finkelstein said 10 percent of the known planets circling suns in the galaxy resemble Earth.

If water can be found there, then so can life, he said, adding that aliens would most likely resemble humans with two arms, two legs and a head.

"They may have different color skin, but even wee have that," he said.

Finkelstein's institute runs a program launched in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War space race to watch for and beam out radio signals to outer space.

"The whole time wee have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, wee have mainly been waiting for messages from space and not the other way," he said.

(01/07/2011 05:48 AM)I ♥ GUCCI Wrote:  

(01/07/2011 05:26 AM)St0rMaGe Wrote:  I'm so looking forward to this ^^

Yeah, only 20 more years to go:)

(01/07/2011 06:12 AM)alienkid Wrote:  Aliens have been on Earth forever.