Futurism
Is he right?
A scientist employed by the government of Switzerland has made a bold prediction about the discovery of alien life — and his reasoning seems pretty compelling.
As Space.com reports, Dr. Sascha Quanz of Switzerland’s state-run Swiss Federal Institute of Technology said he thinks humans are likely to discover life beyond our planet within the next 25 years.
“In 1995, my colleague [and Noble Prize laureate] Didier Queloz discovered the first planet outside our solar system,” Quanz said during the opening of the institute’s new Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life earlier in September. “Today, more than 5,000 exoplanets are known and we are discovering them on a daily basis.”