Thought I’d share this cause it made me lol so hard.
Wait, what?
Hey, why not? The Catholic church is starting to recognize that we aren’t the center of the universe (both literally and otherwise), so obviously they’ll extend their eyes to the heavens. It’d be totally awesome if God created other beings on other planets as well (well, sounds cool, at least. It’s possibility is another matter entirely…)
On a side note, before I clicked the link, I thought the Vatican was trying to contact an extraterrestrial God. That’d be weird.
They aren’t at all trying to be scientific, they’re just trying to make their religion look a little less stupid. Leave extraterrestrial research to the scientists.
Also, other than possibly finding some fossils or finding unicellular organisms (or the alien equivalent of unicellular), we will never discover aliens let alone contact them. The distances between us and planets outside of our solar system is so vast (and constantly expanding) we will probably never even make it outside of our solar system. That’s not to say aliens don’t exist, their just so far away we can’t find them.
I think they are overcompensating a bit cuz of all the shit they got over the whole galileo episode
Your arrogance is appalling and knows no bounds.
I know you’re a raving atheist, but don’t count out Catholicism from the extraterrestrial race just because it’s a religion.
Do aliens go to heaven? did jesus dyin for our sins count for all aliens or do they have their own jesuseses? this is the kind of important science they need to be on top of
Good point, I suppose the aliens could be Catholics. My money is on Mormonism, though.
I’m not sure the catholic church is going the right way with trying to contact the aliens, though. Since they can contact Jesus through prayer via telepathy, it might help to pray to aliens in hope of making extrasensory contact.
Religion and science…not really something that mixes well…personally I’m not a religious person. While I do believe anything is possible… I think it’s going to be some time before we come up with any conclusive evidence that points to aliens. Give it a few more thousand years and we’ll find them. We just need proper technology to leave our solar system.
naw man
Maybe the Catholic Church was bought out by The Church of Scientology?
SETI, apparently the pope’s influence goes farther than we thought.
Why not?
If they ever did find anything at all they’d twist it in to some sort of stupid religious proof or argument.
BTW, there should be no extraterrestial race, I think we need to worry more about our economy, starvation, cancer and over population long long before we start pumping billions into searching for life that we won’t find.
This.
Throughout their entire “conference” I doubt the talked much about actually sending probes in search of life or doing much more than looking through telescopes they were already looking for. This conference’s purpose was mostly likely a preemptive strike to try to prevent themselves from looking like complete dumbasses if somebody did find aliens.
Science and religion can never mix, Even though Science doesn’t directly contradict religion they don’t go together; science is evidence, experiments, logic and reason, religion is archaic books/traditions and faith (belief without reason).
space is too fuckin big for it to matter anyway
Exactly.
I agree that there are more pressing issues, but I really don’t think we’re spending “billions” on SETI. Listening to radio waves is a lot less expensive than, say, manned spaceflight.
IMRFO (in my retardedly fantastical Opinion) I think they’re looking for raptor jesus.
We are spending billions on spaceships unmanned and manned. (definitely not entirely a waste of money but still not worth the enormous amount of money we pour into it)
I know but that’s a different issue, its got nothing to do with trying to find extraterrestrial life, for the most part. And I agree that space colonization/exploration isn’t worth the cost at this point.
space travel is totally worth it imo but seti is a completly separate issue