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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00:00Set of revelations here from Cambridge University. Tell us more. Seems we're not alone.
00:05Yeah, good afternoon, Martin. David Bowie, you're right, in the lead-in said, you know,
00:10there may be life on Mars, but there is a star man waiting in the sky, it looks like,
00:14120 light years or so away. You like that one?
00:18We've been here before. The scientists, the astronomers involved have found potential
00:24signs of life on other planets, and perhaps it's not quite gone the way we hoped when
00:28the additional data has become available. But this time, this isn't the first time
00:32they've detected signals from this planet. And bear in mind, they're not looking at the
00:36planet through a HD telescope and looking at pictures. They're measuring the star's light
00:41as it passes, the planet's light as it passes in front of its star. But this is an experiment
00:46now that's been repeated several times, and they are very excited that perhaps there is
00:50a marine life on the planet, some kind of ocean covering its surface, which would be fascinating.
00:55And it seems to be a giant oceanic globe, what is it, about 2.6 times bigger than Earth.
01:04And crucially, it appears to be in that sweet spot, the corner of the Goldilocks zone, not
01:09too hot, not too cold, plenty of nutrients. And so it seems to be that ideal chemical soup,
01:16the right temperature for life. I mean, it makes the mind boggle.
01:20Yeah, and we have to be fair, they have also stated it could also be a rock planet covered
01:28with a magma ocean. But they do seem very, very certain. All things right now point to
01:34this being a water planet, where there's water, as we know it, there tends to be life, where
01:39there's life. And even if it's small microbial life, perhaps there's bigger life as well, which
01:44is obviously what we're really looking for. Now, this is a long, long, long way away, Captain
01:49Kirk type distances away. So it's not like we're going to be zooming there anytime soon.
01:53We can't even get to Mars with a manned craft yet. But it does get the imagination absolutely
02:00sparking, Andrew McGrillen, that this is the stuff of childhood dreams, the stuff of scientists'
02:06dreams, of astronauts' dreams. We may not be alone.
02:10For people like me, I think this is how the conversation could really get the public at
02:16large invested and involved in the UFO topic, the conversation about extraterrestrial life
02:21or just what non-human life may look like. And for me, if we can get confirmation from
02:27academics and scientists, we'll find some form of life, no matter how far away it is, it
02:33opens up that door and possibility that perhaps there are other forms of life out there that
02:38maybe have been visiting us and, you know, those famous sightings throughout the years
02:42crashing like Roswell, suddenly have another air of credibility with the public.
02:47And Andrew, they're saying this could be phytoplankton, krill because of the gases that
02:52they're saying, but that's how life on Earth began, right? Started small and evolved to where
02:56we are now. So the only limits potentially are our imaginations.
03:01That and potential funding being cut from NASA right now, the United States, you may have
03:08reported on some tumultuous tariffs and whatnot happening over there, budget restraints, and
03:14NASA's budget may be cut in half. So there's even potential this study, as fascinating as
03:19it is, stops in its tracks because of lack of funding. So I would hope the public get behind
03:23things like this and encourage any government to keep looking for life elsewhere.
03:27It's absolutely fascinating. I've got my kids talking about this at home. It's the stuff
03:32of fancy. Thank you for joining us. And that's the podcast host of that.