For all the dancing around the subject the space agency has undertaken for decades, NASA now acknowledges it is committed to finding alien life — and they’re going to do it in the next 10 years. In a recent TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) lecture, a key NASA official admitted that the agency wasn’t taking the search for extraterrestrials seriously, until now. In fact, NASA isn’t simply going to mount a vigorous search for alien life, it has already pinpointed where it will direct its primary efforts.
The Daily Star reported last week that NASA’s planetary director James Green revealed at a TED lecture that a new emphasis has been placed on finding alien life. He announced that NASA was now “hot on the pursuit” of extraterrestrials and has identified four so-called “hotspots” where it is believed the evidence of life can be found. They are the following:
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