Pollution Could Help Us Finally Find E.T.

We've been trying to contact aliens for decades without any reciprocation from those slimy creatures. It turns out there is one dead giveaway when it comes to finding life on other planets: pollution. But word on the scientific street is that even the most high-powered NASA telescope is too weak to spot intelligent life or even pollutants on other planets.

That being said, our own pollution could help the dancing alien from "Spaceballs" spot us, thanks to those dreaded CFCs and their ability to "strongly absorb infrared light at characteristic wavelengths, making them detectable in the atmosphere even when present at concentrations of only parts per trillion," according to an article in New Scientist.

By the same rationale, spotting them elsewhere in the solar system would be a strong indicator of extraterrestrial life because these chemicals "do not form naturally."

Whatever happens, we hope that when these aliens finally show up at an Al Gore press conference to complain about how we're polluting the solar system, they take the cast of "The Hills" back with them.

By the way, if the pollution thing doesn't work, we can always try "Creative Ideas for Contacting Aliens," old and rejected concepts which were all cobbled together for this video.