NASA signs up British priest to prepare for alien life...

Interesting timing makes me think it's a religious fluff piece, or NASA is just trying to spend all their allotted budget so it isn't usurped by another agency. Still, in this woke world and waning tolerances for anything religious or spiritual, I mean this isn't about the implications of simple alien life, it's like buying a language translator when there is nobody to talk to at your destination.

Not to mention nary an article or blurb in the American media that I can find. After 2 years of comparing articles on this or that subject, no corresponding American version is kind of interesting in itself.

www.express.co.uk...

And what the priest is going to do? soak the allies with holy water and declared them clean to interact with the humans of earth.

a reply to: putnam6
Maybe people that have claimed aliens are actually demons are right.

originally posted by: marg6043
And what the priest is going to do? soak the allies with holy water and declared them clean to interact with the humans of earth.

Honestly whitty n funny. Still haven’t figured out this star n flag stuff. But you can have all of mine. Kudos for common sense.

Denny

a reply to: marg6043

More a matter of how to reconcile the profound religious belief systems of some with evidence of life on other worlds.

According to Carl Pilcher, who was head of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute until 2016, the space agency wanted to “consider the implications of applying the tools of late 20th [and early 21st] century science to questions that had been considered in religious traditions for hundreds or thousands of years”

Vatican said it wouldn't be a problem, a few years ago. Hell, they even forgave Galileo for saying the Earth is not the center of creation.


Mele Kalikimaka.

a reply to: putnam6

There was a failed pilot Amazon asked back in 2017 called Oasis this kind of reminds me of. Gonna call in a protest right as the weird stuff happens. Any word if the priest they picked is on a spiritual edge? 😄

a reply to: putnam6

Art imitates life, or life imitates art. Not sure which one is it.

Read a book by Mary Doria Russell, a number of years back, titled, The Sparrow. It always stuck with me.

Now it is starting to look a bit prophetic.

The Sparrow

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.

originally posted by: marg6043
And what the priest is going to do? soak the allies with holy water and declared them clean to interact with the humans of earth.

Yeah, what is a priest going to do?
What’s the purpose, I don’t see any value in this at all

I don’t see the “lol” in this, it’s bizarre, is he supposed to be some appointed holy nasa based religious scientist type figurehead for the sheep to follow

Anyway, havnt seen the evidence, can’t imagine seeing the evidence and it won’t be microbes when they find it

originally posted by: stelth2
a reply to: putnam6
Maybe people that have claimed aliens are actually demons are right.

Interesting sort of what I was thinking as well, Of course, the opposite view could say the same thing.

But yes the stories of greys seemingly to be demonic have been heard too.

a reply to: Phage

PHAGE!!
Where have you been? Everyone's been worried about you!

On topic: I don't see why religious folk would have a problem. The first sentence of Genesis, for example, says "...God created the Heavens and the Earth." Any life out there would be in the "Heavens."

a reply to: new_here

Yeah. I suppose Adam and Eve could be every/anywhere.

But how does the firmament fit into it, exactly? But then, those who think the world is flat are probably a lost cause anyhow.


Best for you and yours in 2022

I have a religious question...

Would it be deemed superstitious or a form of witchcraft to carry some earth dirt with you when going to other worlds?

Flat earth theory being irrelevant in space and often craved when out on the ocean too long... just a little bit of that stuff out in the great beyond would seem abit priceless would it not?

Huge ships carrying tonnes of earth dirt into orbit as if it were spice trading... I mean it's a nightmare in the logistics alone. Year 2050 Earth banned from leaving Earth.

Does the priest have the key to the ancient temple? You know, where the weapon is kept.

a reply to: Crowfoot

Would it be deemed superstitious or a form of witchcraft to carry some earth dirt with you when going to other worlds?

More sentimental, perhaps. Some people collect sand from the beaches they have visited.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: marg6043

More a matter of how to reconcile the profound religious belief systems of some with evidence of life on other worlds.

According to Carl Pilcher, who was head of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute until 2016, the space agency wanted to “consider the implications of applying the tools of late 20th [and early 21st] century science to questions that had been considered in religious traditions for hundreds or thousands of years”

Vatican said it wouldn't be a problem, a few years ago. Hell, they even forgave Galileo for saying the Earth is not the center of creation.


Mele Kalikimaka.

Phage!!!! so glad to hear from you my friend, hope all is well.

Yea but didn't the Catholic church's apology was like 350 years later? they are trying to be very proactive here, that's not a normal trait of the church, however.

a reply to: putnam6

Bureaucracy moves slowly.

Add dogma...

originally posted by: Crowfoot
I have a religious question...

Would it be deemed superstitious or a form of witchcraft to carry some earth dirt with you when going to other worlds?

Flat earth theory being irrelevant in space and often craved when out on the ocean too long... just a little bit of that stuff out in the great beyond would seem abit priceless would it not?

Huge ships carrying tonnes of earth dirt into orbit as if it were spice trading... I mean it's a nightmare in the logistics alone. Year 2050 Earth banned from leaving Earth.

Like a talisman?

Sounds like a movie mash-up of Contact/Water World/Dune who knows but considering how we treat various religious rituals and ceremonies it very well might. Ive always believe if there are aliens they would be exploiting all of earth's resources and we are included on that menu. Which I could easily see mining type operations, and wasn't there a place in South America where there are hundreds and hundreds of holes dugs in a grid typ pattern and all of the approximately equal size?

That said it touches on all aspects such as the religious implications where I first read Contact by Carl Sagan
theconversation.com...

a reply to: Phage

When it comes to many cultures there's nothing more sentimental than carrying on the superstition that goes with it. Hence the recent argument about Cultural Appropriation; Sure most of that has to do with; Wait we want to sell ourselves out before someone else does, but as said even while still on earth such a thing is a logistical nightmare with a few cultures.

Some of the first moon samples were selling for millions and now you can get some certified Mars for under 30 USD.

a reply to: Crowfoot

No material has been returned from Mars and any sales of Lunar material from the Apollo missions are illicit. You may be able to obtain a tiny sample of a Martian meteorite however.

Talk about “seein the light!”

Okay. Ima beam outta here. Merry Xmas ATSliens