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- hydrodev, on 05/27/2009, -11/+119The Vatican comment was in passing and had almost NOTHING to do with this article. But thanks for the spin, liebman! Buried for your lame attempt at sensationalism in the title.
- strictnein, on 05/27/2009, -1/+58"The Vatican will be interested. It's no joke. I've gotten two calls from them"
From what part of The Vatican? Their astronomers at their observatories?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Observatory
http://www.vaticanstate.va/EN/Other_Institutions/T ...
The Vatican's semi-official stance on alien life is that it could exist and they feel that it would just be another of "God's children" or something along those lines. - datastorageguy, on 05/27/2009, -0/+48Same thing that has been done for 2 thousand years or so. Spread the gospel.
- Alwaysandnever, on 05/27/2009, -5/+49If they find another earth, will it have lousy sit coms and a dying auto industry as well?
- fenceratpoly, on 05/27/2009, -5/+48What Pope is going to do if there is another God on that earth?
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -23/+66He got 2 calls from the Vatican asking if they found any flat planets.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -1/+35Nobody expects the Altairian Inquisition!
- mrbroli, on 05/27/2009, -1/+35Yeah, Pope Benedict himself said that the 6000 year-old earth is a crack pot theory, though in not as many words.
EDIT: You can actually thank Martin Luther for advocating the age of the earth to be 6000 years. - inactive, on 05/27/2009, -3/+36hi ............
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*dies* - pingpants, on 05/27/2009, -1/+2927 multi-planet systems! but is our solar system "a weirdo?"
- pinkflyingpig, on 05/27/2009, -0/+26Kepler (space-borne telescope that was mentioned in the article) Update
05.14.09 - Following a successful readiness review, Kepler began its search for planets around other stars on May 12, 2009. The first of the science data are scheduled to be sent down to Earth on June 18.r Mission Update - wannaBdug, on 05/27/2009, -1/+24Do you think they have outlet malls too? lol It would be fascinating to know once and for all if other life exist.
- anexanhume, on 05/27/2009, -1/+2255 Cancri system resident: LOL, but does it run Crysis?
Us: Oh crap... you too? - boxxa, on 05/27/2009, -5/+26Join the millions of there people around the world in the unemployed line.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -4/+24Hurry, let's find another planet so we can ***** it up too!
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -1/+21For all the ***** I give the Catholic church, I gotta give 'em credit for being forward-thinking when it comes to science. I really wish more denominations would take their stance, which is basically that science and religion are answering completely different questions and so religion has no real business dictating what we should believe, scientifically speaking.
Oh well... At the end of the day, I see a grim future for the churches which continue to actively rebel against science. The more they try to fight scientific fact, the more credibility they'll lose. - wpyh, on 05/27/2009, -2/+22Well, it's a lot better than "IMPOSSIBLE! HUMANS ARE TEH CREATION AND EARTH IS 6000 YRS OLD!"
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -3/+21How can you possibly conclude that the chances of life existing on another planet are miniscule? And even if they were, there are so many planets that it's irrelevant. You need to take a statistics course. Saying something is improbable really isn't saying all that much, because technically speaking, highly improbable things happen all the time. Hell, do you know how improbable it is that any two people would come together and copulate to form a child with exactly your DNA sequence? It's mind-bogglingly astronomical, but hey, your combination of DNA exists.
- Georgiane, on 05/27/2009, -0/+18How many more will they find?
- billyvnilly, on 05/27/2009, -1/+18Gotta Catch 'Em All!
- sLydE, on 05/27/2009, -1/+18Don't forget the reality TV...Oh God, the reality TV.
- hfactor, on 05/27/2009, -0/+16Did we read the same article? It says they hoped for the Terrestrial Planet Finder in 2016, but it's not likely.
- hydrodev, on 05/27/2009, -2/+17Because its interesting. Digg isn't just about how new an article is, but how interesting or relevant. Unlike your comment, which was worthless.
So the question is, why are you commenting? - nj10ii, on 05/27/2009, -0/+14Countless possibilities exist if we found a planet that could host life and we send a signal.
1. They are still in the age of dinosaurs.
2. They are not listening.
3. They ignore us, and debate their "WOW" event for decades...
4. They are excited that fresh meat has made themselves known, and judging by the technological analysis of our signal decide we are in our infancy of technology and would be easy prey. Plus they know life is possible on this planet without them having to search for it.
5. Perhaps their civilization has destroyed itself already, similar to what is going to happen to us.
6. Perhaps evolution took a left at Albuquerque there and they have intelligent bovine type beings that have humanoid type pets.
7. Or perhaps the intelligent species stayed in their oceans and their dominate intelligent species are squids with no interest in talking to earthlings. But by some strange happenstance the astronauts discover by licking them, you hallucinate and see God. We enslave the species and transport them to earth, where the Vatacian uses them in a new strange sacrament, while California votes on a medical squid proposition, to make it available for curing psychosis. - strictnein, on 05/27/2009, -1/+14That's not what the article says at all. Read it.
- FortyCaliber, on 05/27/2009, -3/+15This guy, his colleagues, and their families should start looking into security measures.
While the Vatican is harmless in that they have no desire to maintain a hard-lined look at the universe like they once did, there are fundamentalist creationists who will be mighty scared that these people are disrupting their perfect world. I wonder how the creation museum will reconcile another life-filled planet. - uc1digger, on 05/27/2009, -0/+12There are count less, its only time we find them or they find us.....
- MindStalker, on 05/27/2009, -0/+12:) Whats interesting is we are looking for radio waves. Earth has had life for a billion years, its had humans for a few ten thousand years, its had radio waves for about a hundred years and in a few hundred years more we might have moved passed radio and no longer using it. So we're hoping to catch casual conversation among beings for a tiny blip in their evolution. Face it if there is other life out there close enough for communication its either way behind us or way ahead of us. If its way ahead of us we won't be communicating unless they want to.
- EarlOfLade, on 05/27/2009, -0/+12No, it's not a weirdo, yet.
The techniques and the instruments used, are not capable, yet, of finding and identifying planets the size of Earth. This, however, is changing as we speak, but it will still take a few years maybe. - mickstephenson, on 05/27/2009, -0/+12They could have discovered our radio waves 50 years ago, sent off a message back then and it will arrive tomorrow for all you know.
- dattaway, on 05/27/2009, -2/+1250 light years away from the closest one. So, if I live 100 more years, its possible to carry on a brief conversation...
- liebman, on 05/27/2009, -0/+10More info for Marcy fans: http://www.vimeo.com/3505694
- Rudegar, on 05/27/2009, -2/+12no it's just you
- SexyGeekGirl, on 05/27/2009, -2/+12the universe is so huge, if there was nothing out there it would be a total waste of space - contact movie line
- Obermeister, on 05/27/2009, -1/+11Anyone remember the South Park epsiode where the 700 club raises money to build a starship to evangelize the Marklar? I loved that episode.
- AndrewMoyer, on 05/27/2009, -1/+11*Wal-Mars
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -2/+11does anyone else think that broadcasting our presence to the stars is a bad idea?
- evildeadguy, on 05/27/2009, -0/+9Indeed, when I clicked the link I was thinking "This is such a political topic, I hope someone can work in something about a former president."
- fenceratpoly, on 05/27/2009, -0/+9Can't wait to see the first picture.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -4/+13lol it was funny. shame for being buried.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -1/+9I would actually be interested to watch alien evangelical TV shows. It'd be fascinating to see religion on another planet. Or even more interesting yet, maybe they won't even have the faintest concept of religion.
- marmotjmarmot, on 05/27/2009, -0/+8So, who will the the first to reach these new worlds? Starbucks, Walgreens, or Mela-lo-Mart?
- Vosona, on 05/27/2009, -0/+7All of these things fall under the category of "make it better"!
- hydrodev, on 05/27/2009, -2/+9I suppose, and I don't disagree that it works, but i still find it petty.
- bryan879, on 05/27/2009, -1/+8FTA: What's the allure of an Earth-like planet?
To find the first Earth was a dream of Aristotle. Even in the religious realm, people have wondered, and still do, whether Earth was uniquely put here. Not to delve into touchy issues, but there's still a large -- how shall I put it -- spiritual question. Is the Earth the center of creation? And we're about to find out whether there are any other Earths out there. The Vatican will be interested. It's no joke. I've gotten two calls from them.
It just says they are interested. - Garmonbozzia, on 05/27/2009, -1/+8FTA: The Terrestrial Planet Finder. I listed it third because it's further technologically down the line. We had hopes of launching in 2016, but I think that's not likely. . . . It would take the first pictures of Earth-like planets. Look at our own solar system. Which of the planets is blue? Earth. So if you found another star with a pale-blue dot tooling around that yellow star, that blue color and chemical analysis of the planet might give us a strong suggestion of life.
uhhh.. Neptune? - uc1digger, on 05/27/2009, -0/+7No they won't, they might be little backward than us, as they didn't communicate with us till now, so I am sorry to disappoint you on that.
- darkism, on 05/27/2009, -1/+8KooperG: You're a real ray of sunshine. One thing we humans don't care for is being told that something is impossible.
Gliese 581d is only 20 light years away, and that's the most earthlike planet we've found yet. As for getting there, we'll see what happens in 20-30 years when spacecraft are designed by strong AI that's orders of magnitude more intelligent than human engineers. - nyxerebos, on 05/27/2009, -1/+8@cal0140: not true. An engineer can design a calculator which does math faster than the engineer can. The flaw lies in the word 'smart', engineers can already design genetic algorithms that solve problems better and faster than the engineers themselves could. Likewise a scientist might eventually design a hardware neural net large and fast enough to engage in cognition orders of magnitude more complex and quickly than a human brain can.
- stk198323, on 05/27/2009, -3/+10Start some new crusade?
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