[fishtank]

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[molson209]

STOP!!! looking for Life on other Planets , they could be Democrats

[Textide]

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...

[Rebel_Ace]

"Institute for Creation Research"

So, I suppose their idea of "Research" is not to look at anything, not to make more advanced instruments and not to ask any potentially problematic questions.

[JoeFromSidney]

I'm agnostic about life elsewhere in the universe. Maybe, maybe not. That hasn't stopped me from writing several science fiction stories involving aliens. They make good plot material.

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.

[Gaffer]

I suggest they begin their search in the DC Headquarters building.

[TBP]

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.

[stinkerpot65]

The desperate search to prop up evolution ...

[trisham]

There is no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. God created life here.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They are trying to find the home planet of the aliens who have been our overlords for some decades now.

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.

[wattsgnu]

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.

[HenpeckedCon]

By the 2920’s our radio transmissions will have reached 1000 light years. That's just down the street in our own galaxy.