Life On Other Planets? Vatican Aide Ponders The Possibility.

EWTN ^ | 1/9/02

[Zon]

Absence of signal means they are smarter than we are, and waiting in ambush

Being smarter they wouldn't have to harm us they could easily defend themselves without harming intelligent life.

[RightWhale]

the first black monolith on earth

There's something in Arabia that many people think is special, but they won't talk about it.

[Zon]

Um....even if intelligent life were rare out there in the universe, the very size of the universe would mean there would be HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of radio signals beaming out from intelligent civilizations. The fact that NOT ONE such radio signal has been discovered tells me there just aren't any ETs out there. Fact the fact. Earth has the only intelligent life in the universe.

I believe you meant to write face the fact, not fact the fact, right.?

You just shot off top-of-the mind surface "logic". This time think man, because what would you tell Father Coyne and the Vatican; you better have a talk with the Vatican about their being no scientific proof of God then. Think first. Father Coyne surely did.

[RightWhale]

The best way to keep out of trouble is to keep a low profile. They would rather not have to take action, even though they could. They would know we are here, they know who we are, and they would prefer we don't even know about them.

[Zon]

The best way to keep out of trouble is to keep a low profile. They would rather not have to take action, even though they could. They would know we are here, they know who we are, and they would prefer we don't even know about them.

I think they are so far advanced, millions of years more advanced than Earth's civilization that they are oblivious to any civilization that has not made a presence on the Universe Wide Web. Our primitive civilization posses no trouble whatsoever for them. They are as far removed in awareness of us as we are of Neanderthal man. Neanderthal man would pose no trouble to modern man with modern technology. What would you do? would you kill the Neanderthal man or try to communicate peacefully knowing you could at the very worst, put him in jail to keep from killing you because he didn't know that killing intelligent life was wrong.

[maro]

The onus is on you to prove that there is intelligent life off Earth. Until we know more, we should all stay agnostic on that question. Don't give me that Carl Sagan "millions and millions" nonsense. That is not proof of anything, because you can prove anything with it. If there is intelligent life elsewhere, we better start developing weapons to combat them when they show up--they may be hostile.

[RightWhale]

So they might not be impressed with our UWW webpage. They probably have a UWW webpage dedicated to ugly and primitive webpages. They probably teach a course in good webpage design and use ours as an example of what not to do.

[Zon]

The onus is on you to prove that there is intelligent life off Earth. Until we know more, we should all stay agnostic on that question. Don't give me that Carl Sagan "millions and millions" nonsense. That is not proof of anything, because you can prove anything with it. If there is intelligent life elsewhere, we better start developing weapons to combat them when they show up--they may be hostile.

I can only offer hypothesis and I don't like you implying that I meant otherwise. Apparently you assume that if intelligent aliens exist they are as stupid as us to have governments that create wars and harm innocent citizens; Waco, Randy Weaver's wife, SWAT agent shooting an innocent 11 year old boy in the back. BTW, are you atheist, agnostic or believe there is a God?

[PJ-Comix]

This time think man, because what would you tell Father Coyne and the Vatican; you better have a talk with the Vatican about their being no scientific proof of God then.

I would tell Father Coyne that there is no sense speculating about something that will NEVER happen. We will NEVER contact aliens from outer space for the simple reason that they DON'T exist.

[Zon]

So they might not be impressed with our UWW webpage. They probably have a UWW webpage dedicated to ugly and primitive webpages. They probably teach a course in good webpage design and use ours as an example of what not to do.

I imagine that their Web page design would be consistent with their information -- that being peaceful coexistence. Yes, we could learn a great deal from them, even about Wep page design

[Poohbah]

Indeed. I ascribe my interest in science to the fact that God made us a gazillion-piece jigsaw puzzle and said, "Have fun, kids."

[Zon]

I would tell Father Coyne that there is no sense speculating about something that will NEVER happen. We will NEVER contact aliens from outer space for the simple reason that they DON'T exist.

And Father Coyne may try to convince you to not be ostrich-like hiding your head in the sand., or laugh in your face.

[Poohbah]

Actually, the Easter Exultet sums it up neatly: "Oh grievous sin of Adam; oh what a happy fault, for it has given us a wonderful Savior!"

[Poohbah]

Maybe the other life is just intelligent enough to not blast away on the radio 24/7.

[Poohbah]

The onus is on you to prove that there is intelligent life off Earth.

Actually, I'm still waiting for proof of intelligent life ON Earth.

Prosecution Exhibit A: MTV's "Jackass."

Prosecution Exhibit B: 50% of America voted for Al Gore.

The prosecution smugly rests.

[Zon]

Indeed. I ascribe my interest in science to the fact that God made us a gazillion-piece jigsaw puzzle and said, "Have fun, kids."

Do you suppose there could be a person on Earth that would intentionally hide a piece or three of the puzzle for their own self-serving agenda? I mean, we have certainly witnessed people hiding key pieces of information from people. I could list a thousand, but a finger pointing, "I did not have sex with that woman" comes immediately to mind. And a Senate that held a trial, non-trial to hide pieces of a puzzle to avoid doing their duty to uphold their oath of office to the constitution and the people

[dpa5923]

If we are made in his image, does that mean other possible life in the universe has to look like us?

I always took "made in Our image" to mean we were created sinless with the potential for eternal life and free will. Other earthly creatures are sinless, but their lives end on earth and they are driven by instinct.

Now, before anyone loses their mind, I love animals (they taste great) but don't think they live forever as we will.

I believe Christ appeared as he did so we could accept Him. This could be why He came when he did, before the common ability or desire to save a likeness of Him, that way everyone could see Him as best to understand and accept Him.

And now to really blow a extreme conservative Christian mind, I believe if females were the dominate sex of our species, He would have appeared as a She. I don't believe God is a male or a female.

[Poohbah]

If only one person at a time could find a given piece, I'd buy the idea.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Think of the scientific discoveries that are made simultaneously by two or more scientist.

[gwynapnudd]

I'm sure that if the Vatican finds other intelligent life they will be delighted

to reassign all the pedophile priests there to sodomize their young!

[Zon]

Maybe the other life is just intelligent enough to not blast away on the radio 24/7.

ROTFL!!!

I suspect that they have advanced far beyond using radio waves for transferring information. I mean, on Earth, the use of smoke signals has become obsolete.