What if little green men are already among us? In a recent article published on the web, Professor Silvano P. Colombano, who works at a NASA research centre has put a hypothesis forward that should delight science fiction fans. For him there is the possibility that humans have coexisted for a long time with a form of extraterrestrial life, without us even realising it.
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‘I just want to show that the intelligence that we could find, or that could choose to find us (if this has not already happened), is probably not a carbon-based organism like us,’ he explains in the article presenting his theory, published on the NASA website. According to the researcher, it could be a ‘super-intelligent and extremely small entity,’ which could have come to our planet thanks to technologies much more evolved than ours.
‘If we adopt a new set of assumptions about a higher form of intelligence and technology that could be found, some phenomena could correspond to specific hypotheses, and we could begin serious investigations,’ he concludes.
