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Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence research projects have scanned the sky for over 40 years looking for an intelligent signal. Could our level of intelligence be unique in the universe?

This is one of those thought provoking questions I have real difficulty grappling with, because I know so little about the subject.

The same thing happens when I shop for my wife's birthday, so I've opted to apply the same marginally successful method of reaching a conclusion: make a list, then take a shot in the dark as to which one of them is right.

Why is there no scientific evidence of extraterrestrial intelligent life?

Possible answers:

• We are the only intelligent life forms.
• We are the first, or one of the first, intelligent life forms.
• More of the universe needs to be searched.
• We are not searching correctly.
• Intelligent life exists, but they choose not to be known to us.
• Governments are hiding the evidence.
• Evidence exists, but is not accepted by the public.
• Aliens use a different form of communication we cannot detect.

Unfortunately, I feel the most likely reason that we have not located an alien presence (or Aileen's presents), is that we simply have not looked long enough. I hope there is space at the mall.

I would like to give a shout out to the people at The SETI Institute for having the foresight and diligence to be listening.

Search for Extraterrestrials Articles and Web Sites

• I search the internet daily for new articles from around the world that interest me or I think will interest you. My hope is that it saves you time or helps students with their assignments. Listed by most recent first. Hit NEXT button for more articles

• If Advanced Civilizations Using Quantum Communications, Is That Why We’ve Never Seen Them? from Universe Today

• The Search for Alien Life Just Hit a Depressing Setback from Gizmodo

• NASA Scientists on Why We Might Not Spot Solar Panel Technosignatures from NASA

• Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives from Gizmodo

• How SETI is expanding its search for alien intelligence from Space.com

• SETI Research Say Aliens Could Use Black Holes as Quantum Computers from Inverse

• Why Don't We See Robotic Civilizations Rapidly Expanding Across the Universe? from Universe Today

• The alien hunter: has Harvard’s Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life? from The Guardian

• The scientists looking for alien vegetation from BBC News

• In the search for alien life, should we be looking for artificial intelligence? from Space.com

• Could Earth be the only planet with intelligent life? from Big Think

• Have We Already Recorded Proof of Alien Civilizations? There’s Only One Way to Know for Sure from Singularity Hub

• Could We Find Aliens Terraforming Other Worlds? from Universe Today

• Signs of Life? Why This Alien World’s Atmosphere Is Exciting Astronomers from The Singularity

• Did That Message Come From Earth or Space? Now SETI Researchers can be Sure from Universe Today

• Astronomers Scan the Skies for Nanosecond Pulses of Light From Interstellar Civilizations from Universe Today

• In the search for life, might alien ocean worlds be a better bet than Earth-like planets? from Aeon

• What an Alien Civilization Could Learn About Earth From Our Mobile Phone Signals from Singularity Hub

• Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets from Space.com

• Our Best Instruments Couldn’t Find Life on Mars from Universe Today

• Citizen Science - Join the search for extraterrestrial civilizations from Zooniverse

• The World's Largest Radio Telescope Just Scanned 33 Exoplanets for a Signal From Aliens from Universe Today

• The idea that life on Earth originated elsewhere is not as far out as it seems from Aeon

• AI Is Helping Astronomers Search for Intelligent Alien Life—and They’ve Found 8 Strange New Signals from Singularity Hub

• What if we’re truly alone? from Universe Today

• Tesla Semi driving 500 miles, fully loaded, on a single charge video

• ANYexo 2.0: A Fully-Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Versatile Robot-Assisted Neurotherapy video

• Inside NEURA Robotics: meet the AI team video

• Art created by computers video

• Highlights From the First 13 Days of NASA's Artemis video

• Cryobiology and Cryogenics - cool stuff? video

• Tesla Semi driving 500 miles, fully loaded, on a single charge video

• ANYexo 2.0: A Fully-Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Versatile Robot-Assisted Neurotherapy video

• Inside NEURA Robotics: meet the AI team video

• Art created by computers video

• Highlights From the First 13 Days of NASA's Artemis video

• Cryobiology and Cryogenics - cool stuff? video

• Will Enceladus finally answer, ‘Are we alone?’ from Universe Today

• Signatures of alien technology could be how humanity first finds extraterrestrial life from The Conversation

• Innovations in the Search for Life Beyond Earth from SETI Institute

• Alien Artifacts Could Be Hidden Across the Solar System. Here’s how we Could Search for Them. from Universe Today

• A Tool That Can Detect Ancient Life On Earth And Beyond from SpaceRef

• Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds from JPL

• What’s Out There? NASA Sets Up Independent Study on UFOs from Universe Today

• Maybe We Don’t Hear From Aliens Because They Choose To Go Silent from Universe Today

• How to Search for Aliens Motherboard video

• Look! SETI astronomers just simulated what an alien message might look like from Inverse

• Searching for Technosignatures with Dr. Chenoa Tremblay Fraser Cain video

• Disruption Of A Planetary Nitrogen Cycle As Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Agriculture from Astrobiology

• Astronomers Come up With a New Message to let the Aliens Know we’re Here from Universe Today

• Next Generation Telescopes Could Search for Intelligent Civilizations Directly from Universe Today

• These 4 signs of alien technology could lead us to extraterrestrial life from BBC Science Focus

• Life Beyond Earth blog

• Remember When Life was Found in a Martian Meteorite? Turns out, it was Just Geology from Universe Today

• New mission to scour our interstellar neighbourhood for planets that could sustain life from The Guardian

• Analysis of Intriguing Signal by Breakthrough Listen video

• Seti: why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological from The Conversation

• SciTechDaily posted SETI: The Future of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

• Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs from Live Science. Harvard Galileo Project website.

• The Conversation posted Do aliens exist? We asked five experts

• Universe Today posted We Could Detect Alien Civilizations Through Their Interstellar Quantum Communication

• What are the Best Ways to Search for Technosignatures? from Universe Today

• Singularity Hub posted Extraterrestrial Life Could Be Hiding in Our Galaxy’s Interior Ocean Worlds

• Beyond Fermi’s Paradox XIII: The Ocean Worlds Hypothesis by Universe Today

• I’m an astronomer and I think aliens may be out there – but UFO sightings aren’t persuasive article from The Conversation includes an animated map of a century of UFO sightings

• The Aliens Exist—But Evolved Into Virtual Reality at a Nanoscale from Mind Matters

• Astronomers Will Be Able to Use the World’s Biggest Radio Telescope to Search for Signals from Extraterrestrial Civilizations - Universe Today

• Universe Today added another segment to their awesome Fermi Paradox series, that discusses the many theories on intelligent life in the universe. What is the Firstborn Hypothesis?

• Singularity Hub lists The Four Most Promising Worlds for Alien Life in the Solar System

• Australian Telescope Just Scanned 10 million Stars For Any Sign of Extraterrestrial Signals. No sign. - universetoday.com

• Astronomers find no signs of alien tech after scanning over 10 million stars - cnet.com

• Beyond Fermi’s Paradox VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis? - universetoday.com

• A New Search for Evidence of Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way - universetoday.com

• How Europe’s CHEOPS satellite will improve the hunt for exoplanets - theconversation.com

• Ready, SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.? - space.com

• Hydrogen-breathing aliens? Study suggests new approach to finding extraterrestrial life - theconversation.com

• Will SETI 2.0 lead to a discovery of intelligent aliens? - earthsky.org

• Organic molecules discovered by Curiosity Rover consistent with early life on Mars - wsu.edu

• The Very Large Array will search for evidence of extraterrestrial life - digitaltrends.com

• SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens - universetoday.com

• Space: Seti take part in big 'sweep' of the sky to search for alien life - bbc.co.uk

• If We Find Life on Europa or Enceladus, It Will Probably Be a 2nd Genesis - space.com

• Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘I have little doubt that aliens are out there’ - theguardian.com

• Exoplanet-tilt study boosts hope of complex life elsewhere - earthsky.org

• NASA's Mars 2020 Will Hunt for Microscopic Fossils - jpl.nasa.gov

• Breakthrough Listen and NASA Team Up to Look for Signs of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence! - universetoday.com

• Is Humanity Prepared To Discover Alien Life? - Youtube

• Are We Ready for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life? - seti.org

• Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox - singularityhub.com

• The ethics of ET - Aeon

• How should we respond to alien contact? Scientists ask the public - The Guardian

• New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe - UCR

• Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent - The Conversation

• What if ET is an AI? - Aeon

• NASA’s Technosignatures Report is Out. Every Way to Find Evidence of an Intelligent Civilization - Universe Today

• We Could Find Aliens by Spotting Their Satellites - Space.com

• Phosphorus shortage may make alien life very rare - New Atlas

• If we receive a message from aliens, should we delete it without reading it? - Universe Today

• Oxford Study Says Alien Life Would Evolve and Adapt Just Like Life on Earth - Singularity Hub

• On The Alien Question: Where Are They? - NPR

• Are Aliens Communicating with Neutrino Beams? - Universe Today

• Aliens Have Visited Earth, Space Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow Believes - Live Science

• Listening to starlight: Our ongoing search for alien intelligence - Engadget - 05/17

• We Are on the Verge of Discovering Aliens - Vice - 05/17

• Giant Telescope in China Joins International Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life - Space.com - 10/16

• SETI and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life - Space.com - 08/16

• Relax, it'll be 1,500 years before aliens contact us - Phys.org - 07/16

• Two technologies that could be invaluable to the search for life - New Atlas - 05/16

• We Haven’t Found Aliens Because They’re All Already Dead, Scientists Say - Yahoo! News - 01/16

• Here's More Evidence That Galactic Super-Civilizations Don't Exist - io9 - 09/15

• Will SETI’S new program find E.T.? - Universe Today - 08/15

• Why Aren't The Aliens Here Already? - NPR - 05/15

• Search for Alien Life Should 'Follow the Methane,' Scientists Say - Space.com - 04/15

• Scientists Scan 100,000 Galaxies And See No Signs Of Alien Life. What Do E.T. Hunters Say Now? - Huffington Post - 04/15

• NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Predicts We'll Find Signs Of Alien Life Within 10 Years - Huffington Post - 04/15

• 'Astro-archaeological' discovery of replica solar system with Earth-sized planets from the dawn of Time - University of Birmingham - 02/15

• Bill Nye Explains Why The Search For Alien Life Could End On Europa - io9 - 09/14

• 13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens - Space.com - 07/14

• Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress - The Huffington Post - 05/14

• Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? - Phys.Org - 04/14

• Future evidence for extraterrestrial life might come from dying stars - Harvard Gazette - 03/13

• Dyson Sphere Hunt Using Kepler Data - Centauri Dream - 10/12

• SETI search resumes at Allen Telescope Array, targeting new planets - SETI - 12/11

• The Myth of the Evil Aliens - Michael Shermer - 06/11

• Just a speck in the cosmic soup - Indiana Daily Student - 09/10

• Alien hunters should look for artificial intelligence - BBC News - 08/10

• Experts are confident alien life will be discovered soon - Softpedia - 04/10

• Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Science Daily - 03/10

• Alien attack on earth is possible, says Stephen Hawking - University of Cambridge - 03/10

• Search for Extraterrestrials Web Sites and Blogs

• Breakthrough Initiatives - Where is everybody?

• Exoplanet Exploration - JPL

• Fermi paradox - Wikipedia

• Man Claims Aliens Send Him Messages - ABC News Video

• Rio scale for SETI detections - Cambridge University Press

• SETI - The SETI Institute

• SETI@home - Search for aliens from home

• WETI Institute - To understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of intelligent life in the universe