Today, the case for why there are no aliens on Planet Earth, now, or ever in the past.  But first, global beliefs regarding aliens : Then there is the Fermi Paradox . In the summer of 1950, Enrico Fermi, who had won the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize, had lunch at Los Alamos with three colleagues, Edward Teller (father of the Hydrogen Bomb), Emil Konopinski (calculated that this H-bomb would not ignite the Earth's atmosphere) and Herbert York (became director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Edward Teller recalls "in the middle of the conversation, Fermi came out with the quite unexpected question 'Where is everybody?'…The result of his question was general laughter because of the strange fact that in spite of Fermi's question coming out of the clear blue, everybody around the table seemed to understand at once that he was talking about extraterrestrial life". In his account of the famed luncheon, Teller wrote "I do not believe much came from this ...

  If you are among those intrigued with outer space, you might want to skip NCAA football for a couple of hours and tune in to CNN tonight at 9PM ( EST ) or 4PM in Hawaii.    The Hunt for Planet B   will be setting the stage for, finally, and hopefully, the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on December 18 at 7:20 ( EST ) on an Ariane 5 rocket at the European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana.  This is Europe's contribution to the project.  Why here is that the location is at the equator. The staff of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) and NASA, plus much of the world, will be holding their collective breaths until the first sign of success occurs in about  six months  after launch.  Why?  Just  read these details  to appreciate the complexity of the operation to take the telescope a million miles away to the second Lagrange ( L2 ) at the Earth-Sun balance point. A first comparison can be made with the infra ...