It Is Nothing but Science Fiction The Guardian published an article titled “$ 100m to find alien life? That’s a start – but not nearly enough” by Rebecca Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is a writer for the Guardian, and chair of the American Museum of Natural History’s department of astrophysics. In the beginning of the article, the author asked a scientific question and wondered if we are alone in universe. Furthermore, she emphasized that there is alien life out of our solar system. However, the author didn’t provide good evidence to her readers to prove her claims. I think this amount of money is a waste to spend on this research, because there are no reliable scientists that have clues to support her argument. Besides, I do not think that the author is right when she
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The author put funding the project in the spot and tried to encourage governments all over the globe to support these kind of researches, alien for example. The Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner was praised by the author when he started to invest 100 million dollars in this research, “we need the passion and dedication that Milner has shown”, (Oppenheimer). Simultaneously, she criticizes all the governments, because there’s not enough money to spend on this research in her opinion as the title of her article indicated. She wrote that scientists will never be sure whether we are alone or not, because the universe is very huge to examine entirely, “The universe is too big to survey completely, and science can never definitively say that we are alone”, (Oppenheimer, 2015). Through the article, the author provided an example of states and countries that use advanced technology to observe and analyze any changing on planets all the times. Additionally, the author mentioned that scientists are
The author put funding the project in the spot and tried to encourage governments all over the globe to support these kind of researches, alien for example. The Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner was praised by the author when he started to invest 100 million dollars in this research, “we need the passion and dedication that Milner has shown”, (Oppenheimer). Simultaneously, she criticizes all the governments, because there’s not enough money to spend on this research in her opinion as the title of her article indicated. She wrote that scientists will never be sure whether we are alone or not, because the universe is very huge to examine entirely, “The universe is too big to survey completely, and science can never definitively say that we are alone”, (Oppenheimer, 2015). Through the article, the author provided an example of states and countries that use advanced technology to observe and analyze any changing on planets all the times. Additionally, the author mentioned that scientists are