… because it isn’t sexy or sensationalistic:
Do Aliens Exist? Renowned NASA Scientist Says ‘No One’s Out There’
The article notes early on:
William Borucki, the principal investigator of NASA’s Kepler mission, said he’s very surprised at the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life, given his work discovering habitable planets outside our solar system . . . “Up till now, it was just an intellectual question. It isn’t anymore. There could be 10 billion civilizations or none. The evidence certainly is none,” Borucki said in an interview with the Hong Kong newspaper Thursday. ”The evidence says no one’s out there.”
But what about the Drake Equation? It’s a vapor, because each item in it is literally made up.
No doubt the UFO fandom will cite this as disinfo, so it will get a lot of play on the less-reputable blogs and forums.
Borucki could be right, but I am surprised he would be so pessimistic. But there’s a lot I don’t know about sending signals over interstellar distances. Would a signal maintain its integrity, or would it be dispersed or altered during such a fantastically long trip?
If we could bounce a signal off of one of these exoplanets, we’d have a better idea how well an alien transmission held together.
(Maybe scientists have comparable data, but I wouldn’t even know how to look it up.)
While going through the lastest links, I found this article, which answers some of my questions, somewhat.
http://www.livescience.com/52274-snowden-alien-signal-encryption.html
It’s kinda hilarious to me watching the reaction to this article as it gains traction around the Internet. The fundamentalist nonbelievers are hysterically attacking it and the scientist’s statements. It’s almost like when fundamentalist believers get worked up after some scientists says, “God doesn’t exist.”
People should have some faith in their faith, and understand where (or whom) their source of knowledge is rooted in.
Why are you here complaining? Because you have a right to, right? We then have a right to defend our faith intellectually as well as you. If you want us to be silent then you will be waiting a long time.
Well, I apologize if you thought I was complaining. I’m not. Just observing. I would that people be intellectually secure enough in their faith and not hysterically or viciously attack others. There’s very little “intellectual” in the way of discussions between believers and nonbelievers online. It’s too often a bloodletting, better reflecting the worship of Moloch rather than the worship of Jesus.
Example: last night I was watching a clip on YouTube from Food Networks’ “Chopped”, when a Christian who won the contest donated his prize money to the runner-up for a charitable cause. It was very moving, and the YouTube comments generally reflected that he was showing God’s love.
But the fundamentalist nonbelievers,… wow. They attacked him, the judges, the show, the girl who needed the money, the viewers who were touched, the faith, the historical reliability of Jesus, the evidence of God, yada yada yada.
Their reactions indicated to me they felt attacked and had to lash out to protect their weak self-image. Why else did they feel attacked by people enjoying the selfless act of giving? They should have faith in their faith and be intellectually secure enough in who they are without feeling like they have to lash out in anger and hate.
Similarly, many Christians react in shameful ways when a nonbeliever online says something anti-God or anti-Jesus or anti-faith. We should manifest our love of the Father through our behavior from our secure identity as God’s imagers, rather than engaging in pointless arguments online with nonbelievers who don’t have a heart condition open to the gospel.
If someone has sincere questions, then great, be intellectual in your response as Paul was, but most trolls are just into the bloodletting and making fools of Christians who don’t have sound reasoning behind their positions and it grieves me when Christians give into these base instincts and what could be interesting discussions end up in the muck.
I hope that clarifies my thinking.
Very good counter response. I do not defend christians that get passive or active agressive about defending the faith. I am secure in what I believe but my faith is so much more than blind faith. The Lord God loves me and fights for me without me taking things into my own hands. The Lord God is a gentleman and does force anybody to believe but He does invite you to. Following Him means turning the cheek to which we fail most of time but it is not Him lacking but us lacking discipline to obey.
No doubt, I agree with this guy 100%.
The universe is an inhospitable place. There are so many things that had to go “just right” for life to exist on this planet.
It is a miracle that we are here…
But by no means it is an accident.
But…but…but…just yesterday NASA told me there was liquid water (albeit tiny amounts of brine trickling down a mountain) on Mars. That same press release informed me that such a discovery could only mean that life on Mars was all but assured, and that its subsequent discovery will be but a mere formality.
I’m sure it will – but the alien life story was talking about intelligent life, not microbes or pond scum.
I understand there is a difference between microbes and intelligent life, but still I found the confidence of the NASA scientists that they could find even microbial life on Mars a little unwarranted given the excess levels of radiation present. Not to mention the fact that we don’t really know what is necessary for life to begin in the first place.
True enough. See http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/the-harsh-truth-about-mars-water-and-nasas-journey-to-mars-editors-pick-1225318