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WATCH: Andrew McGrillen warns alien life discovery could be 'stopped in its tracks'
Apr 18, 2025
UFO podcast host Andrew McGrillen has warned that the groundbreaking discovery of potential alien life on planet K2-18b could be "stopped in its tracks" due to NASA funding cuts.Speaking on GB News, McGrillen expressed concern that budget constraints in the United States could halt further investigation into what scientists are calling "the strongest evidence yet" of extra terrestrial life.READ THE FULL STORY
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set of revelations here from Cambridge University
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Tell us more. It seems we're not alone. Yeah, good afternoon, Martin
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David Bowie, you're right, in the lead-in, said, you know, there may be life on Mars
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but there is a star man waiting in the sky, it looks like, or 120 light-years or so away
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You like that one? We've been here before. The scientists, the astronomers involved
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have found potential signs of life on other planets, and perhaps it's not quite gone the way we hoped
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when the additional data has become available. But this time, this isn't the first time
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they've detected signals from this planet. And bear in mind, they're not looking at the planet
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through a HD telescope and looking at pictures. They're measuring the planet's light
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as it passes in front of its star. But this is an experiment now that's been repeated several times
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and they are very excited that perhaps there is a marine life on the planet, some kind of ocean covering its surface
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which would be fascinating. And it seems to be a giant oceanic globe
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Was it about 2.6 times bigger than Earth? And crucially, it appears to be in that sweet spot, the corner of the Goldilocks zone
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Not too hot, not too cold, plenty of nutrients. And so it seems to be that ideal chemical soup, the right temperature for life
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I mean, it makes the mind boggle. yeah and we have to be fair they have also stated it could also be a rock planet covered with a
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magma ocean but they do seem very very certain all things right now point to this being a water
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planet where there's water as we know it there tends to be life where there's life and even if
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it small microbial life perhaps there bigger life as well which is obviously what we really looking for Now this is a long long long way away Captain Kirk distances away So it not like we going to be zooming there any time soon We can even get to Mars with a manned craft yet
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But it does get the imagination absolutely sparking, Andrew McGrillan, that this is the stuff of childhood dreams
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the stuff of scientists' dreams, of astronauts' dreams. We may not be alone
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for people like me i think this is how the conversation could really get the public at large
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invested and involved in the ufo topic the conversation about extraterrestrial life or
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or just what non-human life may look like and for me if if we can get confirmation from academics
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and scientists we'll find some form of life no matter how far away it is it opens up that door
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and possibility that perhaps there are other forms of life out there that maybe have been visiting as
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and, you know, those famous sightings throughout the years, crashing like Roswell
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suddenly have another air of credibility with the public. And, Andrew, they're saying this could be phytoplankton
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krill because of the gases that they're saying, but that's how life on Earth began, right
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It started small and evolved to where we are now. So the only limits, potentially, are our imaginations
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That and potential funding being cut from NASA right now, the United States
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You may have reported on some tumultuous tariffs and whatnot happening over there, budget restraints, and NASA's budget may be cut in half
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So there's even potential this study, as fascinating as it is, stops in its tracks because of lack of funding
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So I would hope the public get behind things like this and encourage any government to keep looking for life elsewhere
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It's absolutely fascinating. I've got my kids talking about this at home. It's the stuff of fancy. Thank you for joining us
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And that's the podcast host of that
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