Vatican scientists co-host conference on alien life forms

Cath News ^ | March 19, 2014

[NYer]

Nearly 200 scientists are attending the conference, called The Search for Life Beyond the Solar System: Exoplanets, Biosignature & Instruments, which runs from March 16-21 in Tucson, Arizona. The Vatican Observatory is co-hosting the conference with the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.

'Finding life beyond Earth is one of the great challenges of modern science and we are excited to have the world leaders in this field together in Tucson,' said event co-chair Daniel Apai, assistant professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the UA Steward Observatory.

'But reaching such an ambitious goal takes planning and time. The goal of this meeting is to discuss how we can find life among the stars within the next two decades.'

The Rev Paul Gabor of the Vatican Observatory, the conference's other co-chair, added that scientists will give more than 160 research presentations during this week's conference.

According to the organisers, the conference will cover the technical challenges of finding and imaging exoplanets and identifying biosignatures in the atmospheres of far-flung worlds. Other presentations will discuss the study of life forms that live in extreme environments on Earth, which could be apt analogs for life on other planets.

FULL STORY Vatican scientists co-host conference in Arizona seeking alien life in universe (Foxnews)

[NYer]

The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest active astronomical observatories in the world, with its roots going back to 1582 and the reform of the Julian calendar. Papal interest in astronomy can be traced to Pope Gregory XIII who had the Tower of the Winds built in the Vatican in 1578 The observatory in its present form was officially founded in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII. Today there are 13 Jesuits from 6 countries throughout the world on staff of the Observatory.

With the continuously increasing population of Rome the skies above the Observatory again became too bright. In 1981, for the first time in its history, the Observatory founded a second research center, the Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG), in Tucson, Arizona, one of the world’s largest and most modern centers for observational astronomy.

The Observatory staff have offices at Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona where they also have access to all of the modern telescopes located in the Tucson area. In 1993 the Observatory, in collaboration with Steward Observatory, completed the construction of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope ( VATT ) on Mt. Graham, Arizona, probably the best astronomical site in the continental United States. This is the first optical-infrared telescope of the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO), a project which in the coming years will see the construction of some of the world’s most sophisticated and largest telescopes.

[NYer]

The library at Castel Gandolfo contains more than 22,000 volumes and possesses a valuable collection of rare antique books including works of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Brahe, Clavius, and Secchi. In addition there is a unique meteorite collection from which a knowledge of the early history of the solar system is being derived. Research results are published in international journals.

Ping!

[iowamark]

live video at:

http://www.ebi2014.org/

[Buckeye McFrog]

Today’s second collection will be for the Missions to the Pagan souls on Rigel 7....

[Rapscallion]

Finding intelligent alien life is improbable. Most likely we will find life in robotic form. Just as we are doing to fulfill our destiny....robotics.

[DManA]

Father Guido Sarducci:

Well, there's this-a new planet that they spotted. It's gonna be something, it's got these-a astronomers baffled in the house. [ holds up photo of the galaxy ]

This is it right-a here, I hope-a you can-a see it. They call it SS-433, and they found out it's-a coming toward Earth at 30,000 miles a second. But.. it's also going away from Earth at 30,000 miles a second. It seems-a to be coming and-a going. It just breaks all the laws of physics, they don't know what to make of it.

So I went to the-a Vatican library, looked up these old archives - you know we've been-a involved with astronomy and astrology for years and years , hundreds of years. And, I did-a find it, in-a this old book. The planet was called Vienne et Viennu Planet.. it means A-Coming and A-Going Planet.. and the book says that there is life there, and it's-a very interesting. It says that everyone there lives to be 200 years old.

But it's not like they get to be real old.. what happens is, they get to 100, then they start going back again. It's like, 70, 80, 90, 100.. then, 90, 80, 70, 60.. then you're like a teenager again, then you know a kid again, and then you know.. you have to go back. I understand this-a little article says it's even-a more tramautic than-a being born.

And what's interesting - people on this planet, just from looking at one another, they can't tell who's-a coming and who's-a going. So, like, maybe two peple meet, they're 20 years old, a fellow and a girl. They're 20, and first you know, he's 22 and she's 18.. then, you know, he's-a 25 and she's-a 15.. and you know pretty soon you find yourselves in a lot of trouble, and then the first thing, you got a little baby on your hands, you know?

[a fool in paradise]

[Alex Murphy]

Oh, good grief.

Hey, get into the spirit of the thing! Case in point, these prior threads:

The Vatican and UFOs
Do space aliens have souls? Inquiring minds can check Jesuit's book
Vatican Astronomer Says ET Could Phone Home
"The Omega Secret" [UFOs and the Vatican]
Vatican and UFO: Secretum Omega [Extraterrestrial Culture Day]
Secretum Omega Part II [Extraterrestrial Culture Day]
Vatican Official Confirms the Existence of Extraterrestrials [Friday afternoon tinfoil alert]
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens ("The extraterrestrial is my brother")
Fatima: The new Movie… Deception a-go-go [the Fatima apparitions were really UFO manifestations]
The Vatican joins the search for alien life
Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life
Vatican Observatory examines theological implications of finding alien life
Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life
Vatican Seeks Signs of Alien Life... E.T. phone Rome!
Does Jesus save aliens?
Vatican prepares for extraterrestrial disclosure
The Truth Is Out There. Extraterrestrials, Probably Not
Aliens visiting the Vatican: UFO Landing site filmed
Alleged Vatican Official Says Extraterrestrials Are Real
UFO Disclosure 2010: Vatican Secrets And The Coming Hoax
Who's Behind the UFO Phenomenon? (from The Angelus: A Journal of Roman Catholic Tradition)

[Mrs.Z]

There is an interesting book out: Exo-Vaticana

Check it out.

[Zeneta]

People searching for something that has already found us.

[SkyDancer]

Will the aliens that abducted that 777 be invited?

[afsnco]

Are they talking about the alien (demonic) lifeforms that indwell their child molesting priests and people like Pelosi, Obama, etc.?

[jsanders2001]

> Oh, good grief.

All one has to do to know that aliens exixt is to walk around San Francisco for 15 mins

[onedoug]

Brother Guy Consolmagno is the curator of their meteorite collection, which is one of the largest in the world. He’s written one or two interesting books.

[jsanders2001]

And those look pretty tame compared to what I’ve seen that I wish I could erase...: )

[GraceG]

God only made life on earth and that life is only 6,000 years old because there is no way God could have filled theuniverse with life because it is not explicitly spelled out inthe bible that god himself wrote and you can tell god wrote it because his name is on the copywright page dag nabbit...

[GraceG]

[ The library at Castel Gandolfo contains more than 22,000 volumes and possesses a valuable collection of rare antique books including works of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Brahe, Clavius, and Secchi. In addition there is a unique meteorite collection from which a knowledge of the early history of the solar system is being derived. Research results are published in international journals. ]

Christians Save books, ROPers burn down entire libraries that are not their version of their holy book....

Of course Christians take ALL the blame for any Middle Ages shenanigans that involve religions punishing men of science....