Whos butt did they pull the "50 to 100 years" number out of?

Is there like a scientific formula that says Alien Contact Will Occur Between X and Z years?

Fuckwads.

See, I don't buy that at all. Humans have been ready for an alien contact for decades! I certainly doubt that people would be running in the streets in panic if a few alien ships started to hover above cities. ::clap:: :D

[b]Earthlings Not Ready for Alien Encounters, Yet[/b]

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/earthlings-not-ready-for-alien-encounters-yet-140508.htm

[quote]The people of planet Earth would be wise to raise their cosmic consciousness prior to contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, a new study shows.

"The scientific community now accepts to some degree that this contact may occur in the next 50 to 100 years," writes Gabriel De la Torre, a clinical neuropsychologist and human factors specialist at the University of Cádiz in Spain.

"Consequently, we are becoming more concerned about this possibility and its aftermath . Certainly the topic of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations raises a number of questions that are not easy to answer," De la Torre writes. "We estimate that this type of event will have not only a social effect, but also on both consciousness and biology as well."[/quote]
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