18 February, 2012 It is not often scientists are willing to
openly discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
According to a famous astronomy professor there is a reason why
a majority of scientists avoid the subject - it is censored!
Even though the general public embraces ideas of
extraterrestrial life, science is expected to shun this subject
no matter how strong the evidence, albeit through a conspiracy
of silence. It is an unwritten doctrine of science that
extraterrestrial life could not exist in our immediate vicinity,
or, that if such life did exist, it could not have a connection
with Earth. Professor N. Chandra Wickramasinghe was born in
Colombo, Sri Lanka, on January 20, 1939. He studied astrophysics
at Cambridge, where he was a student of Hoyle's. He received his
Ph.D. in 1963 and an Sc.D. in 1973, and served on the faculty at
Cambridge. He is now a Professor of Applied Mathematics and
Astronomy at the University College, Cardiff, Wales. He is an
expert in the use of infrared astronomy to s