#4350843 - 04/13/17 12:56 PM
Re: NASA Announcement
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I hope this "revelation" actually turns out to be something with some real substance. I've lost count how many public announcements NASA has made over the past 5 years or so which ultimately ended up being no big deal. +1 I've seen numerous articles over the last week about the discovery of an earthlike planet being discovered "only" 39 light years away that supposedly has water and an atmosphere so if this is what NASA is going to "announce" they've missed the boat.
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#4350861 - 04/13/17 01:17 PM
Re: NASA Announcement
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This is something to do with Jovian and/or Saturnian moons I believe. Clarke got it right back in the late 70s when he wrote 2010, there is water under Europa's surface. It's just not the only one.
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#4351005 - 04/14/17 03:39 AM
Re: NASA Announcement
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I hope that they can somehow prove that there is life there, if for no other reason than to quiet down all of the, "Earth is the only place in the universe where life is possible," types. If it is there, on that moon so close to the sun, imagine all the other possibilities out there. And maybe we are all Martians, after all.
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#4351030 - 04/14/17 09:40 AM
Re: NASA Announcement
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Yep, even a simple living microbe on another planet (bonus points if it could be proven that it didn't originate from earth via meteor or whatever) would put a huge question mark on certain religions. I remember watching a documentary on YT once ages ago that most governments have contingency plans in relation to how the news would be released, plans for civil disorder. It struck me as odd that one of the first people to be told apart from the head of the relevant country would be the Pope. But I guess it would affect the Catholic faith more than maybe others.
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#4351034 - 04/14/17 10:32 AM
Re: NASA Announcement
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Catholisism has a way of absorbing new ideas into the faith, so they'll probably just work it in somehow. They already accepted evolution, for example.
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#4351039 - 04/14/17 10:47 AM
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Catholisism has a way of absorbing new ideas into the faith, so they'll probably just work it in somehow. They already accepted evolution, for example. Yup. Look at all the pagan celebrations that are now christian celebrations.
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#4351041 - 04/14/17 10:51 AM
Re: NASA Announcement
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PM, you wouldn't be impressed unless nasa found Krycek's (other) hand on Mars.
Either that or NASA finds the alien bounty hunter mothership. Oh and by the way, my Spidey sense is tingling and telling me that this thread is heading to PWEC real soon!
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#4351052 - 04/14/17 11:08 AM
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As a Christian my-self, I have yet to come across any place where the Bible states that there is only life here on earth. If Christians say so, that is pure conjecture and not based on any fact.
It's only a problem for the fundamentalists who take the Bible verbatim as absolute truth.
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#4351062 - 04/14/17 12:19 PM
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Just my two cents on religion.
As a Christian my-self, I have yet to come across any place where the Bible states that there is only life here on earth. If Christians say so, that is pure conjecture and not based on any fact.
Also the Bible not only say there is a God; but talk about other intelligent beings (Angels).
Now regardless if any body here believe this or not, this opens a lot of doors of what could possibly be out there.
From my perspective the possibility for life on other planets are endless. This goes for parallel universes as well.
It could very well be everywhere and from the simplest one-celled organism to beings much more intelligent than us.
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#4351064 - 04/14/17 12:20 PM
Re: NASA Announcement
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As a Christian my-self, I have yet to come across any place where the Bible states that there is only life here on earth. If Christians say so, that is pure conjecture and not based on any fact.
It's only a problem for the fundamentalists who take the Bible verbatim as absolute truth. Nope. As one of those " fundamentalists who take the Bible verbatim as absolute truth" there is still, as PP stated, no place in the Bible " where the Bible states that there is only life here on earth".
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