{"id":1070,"date":"2009-01-31T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2009\/01\/31\/examiner-5\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T13:40:07","slug":"examiner-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/examiner-5\/","title":{"rendered":"EXAMINER &#8211; Exopolitics: A new way to understand the possibility of intelligent life on other planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>\nExopolitics: A new way to understand the possibility of intelligent life on other planets<br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<div style=\"float: right; padding-top: 6px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner#comments\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/image.examiner.com\/img\/discuss.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Add a Comment <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px;\">\n<div style=\"width: 35px; float: left; padding-right: 5px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/image.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/author\/tiny\/ALFRED_WEBRE_125cropped_45335_2009-01-30%2007-18-43.411.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>January 31, 12:00 AM <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 10px;\">by Alfred Webre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Exopolitics Examiner<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/image.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/wysiwyg\/image\/everystockphoto-nasa-space-53077-tn%285%29.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/>In January 2006, the <a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2006\/02\/associated_pres.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> reported that &quot;Exopolitics&quot; was nominated for 2005 Word of the Year. &quot;Exopolitics&quot; was coined in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Exopolitics&quot; gave a name to what adult Americans had reported to<br \/>\npollsters at Ropers several years earlier in 2002:&#0160; that American<br \/>\npublic opinion was in agreement with the existence of intelligent life<br \/>\non other planets.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p> In fact, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/ufo\/roper\/\" target=\"_blank\">2002 Roper poll<\/a><br \/>\non American beliefs and personal experiences on intelligent life on<br \/>\nother planets, using rigorous scientific polling methods, found that<br \/>\nabout half (48%) of U.S. adults believe that intelligent life from<br \/>\nother planets or dimensions is now visiting Earth, and that two-thirds<br \/>\n(67%) of U.S. adults believe in the existence of intelligent life<br \/>\nelsewhere in the Universe.&#0160;&#0160; <\/p>\n<p> The Roper poll also found that<br \/>\n72% of U.S. Adults believe the U.S. government is not telling all it<br \/>\nknows about space craft or &quot;unidentified flying objects&quot; visiting<br \/>\nEarth. Fully 14% of&#0160;&#0160; Americans say they have had a close encounter<br \/>\nwith a space craft or &quot;unidentified flying object.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>continued<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-<wbr \/>2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-<wbr \/>Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}