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Posted on 07/23/2014 8:21:30 AM PDT by fishtank
NASA's Far Out Search for Life
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
With lofty words about humanity’s future, NASA promoters discussed the hope of discovering life on other planets at a recent meeting in NASA headquarters in Washington.1 Despite billions of dollars spent on the decades-long search and the fact that not one shred of distant life evidence has been found, NASA continues to suggest that life might really be out there and that its discovery is within reach. Does scientific evidence really justify this expensive search for distant life? If not, what’s the driving force behind this program?
The hope of discovering life in outer space dangles at the end of the long and costly stick, and its elusive carrot takes the form of life-friendly planets in distant star systems. The Kepler space telescope has helped astronomers verify over 1,700 “exoplanets” out of an ever-growing pool of more than 5,000 candidates. These findings almost certainly help fuel NASA’s plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite in 2017, the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, and others later on—all looking for distant signs of life.
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STOP!!! looking for Life on other Planets , they could be Democrats
We’re like a bedridden, sick man trying to see what’s happening in the neighborhood with our binoculars. We can no longer go outside without help from someone else. If only we had more money for better binoculars...
That’s why they’re looking so hard, they need more .”living” democrat voters...
Having said that, I have to ask, how is the "search for life" part of NASA's mission? Where does the Constitution give the government that power?
I'm all for research, and have supported the SETI project. However, that's privately funded. I see no justification for spending tax money on it.
I'm reminded of a Soviet-era joke. A listener writes in to a Russian radio station: "What is scientific research?" The station replies, "So far as we can determine, scientific research is the satisfaction of private curiosity at public expense." Those who are curious about life elsewhere can use their own dime to pay for the search.
Wen the soviets put Sputnik into space communication satellites
And rocket tech were national defense items
Still are to a lesser degree
I'm a flat out atheist.
I suggest they begin their search in the DC Headquarters building.
NASA is in need of revitalization.
It does not make sense to me that we’re the only intelligent life in a vast, infinite Universe.
The desperate search to prop up evolution ...
There is no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. God created life here.
They want to identify and locate it so they can export Oprah, Porn, SUVs and all the rest to that planet and destroy it as Earth has been.
Why would God need to put those in his image on more than one planet?
I am so happy to read this point of view that I share; that there will be life out there if, and only if, God wanted it to be. At the same time, my curiosity always has me wondering and I enjoy discovering what is out there. Whatever we have found or will find in the future, I thank God for the ability to discover it.
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