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A clip from a recent one-on-one conversation between former President Barack Obama and podcaster Lex Fridman discussing unidentified flying objects (UFOs), now referred to as Unidentified anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), has attracted more than 4 million views since it was posted on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw&t=2s
Obama posted the clip to his own Instagram account on Sunday evening, but clarified his comments in the caption.
“I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” the former president wrote.“But the distances between solar systems are so grate that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
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Obama’s view on the possibility of extraterrestrial existence aligns with the current scientific consensus. With advancements in astronomy, scientists increasingly believe the universe likely harbors life, though contact remains improbable due to vast distances.
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As journalist Garret M. Graff, author of UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life here—and Out There, https://www.rollingstone.com/t/ufo/ reported for rolling Stone, advances in technology have allowed scientists to estimate the number of potentially habitable planets – planets with conditions that could support life as we know it – in the universe. Current estimates suggest around one sextillion (one billion trillion) such planets.https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/are-aliens-real-evidence-contact-ufos-1234885613/
With these numbers, the probability of life existing elsewhere is high, though it is indeed likely very distant.The Andromeda Galaxy, the closest galaxy to our own, is approximately 2.5 million light-years away. The next closest group of galaxies is roughly 520 million light-years distant. As Graff wrote,“The math may very well be on the side of the aliens existing,but that’s largely as the math of the universe itself turns out to be astounding.”
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