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Friday, March 7. 2008
The following picture...
should strike fear into the hearts of all major religions - worldwide.
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr121/im/ice-in-crater-Mexpress-lg.jpg
That is Mars.
That is water ice.
This is the beginning of the end.
Its been nice knowing you.
Scuzzmonkey.
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nope.
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&mission=Mars%20Express&single=y&start=73
is an ESA mission link good enough?
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&mission=Mars%20Express&single=y&start=73
is an ESA mission link good enough?
Seems it passed us by:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4727847.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4727847.stm
yea its a bit old...but still.
Shadow: water ice = water = ^^^^chance of life on other planets = another nail in the coffin of organised religions.
Shadow: water ice = water = ^^^^chance of life on other planets = another nail in the coffin of organised religions.
Not really.
Judaism/Christianity/Islam:
"OK, so god created other beings on other worlds also. It doesn't say in our holy book that he DIDN'T"
Bhuddism:
"Well of course it's entirely probable that consciousnesses have reached that level of evolution in a universe so incomprehensibly vast"
I don't know enough about Sikhism or Hinduism to know what they say. But I do know that Hinduism is very broad about most things. I am told that their holy books can be read to the effect of "God may exist...or he may not".
I have little doubt that religion will survive far beyond this meagre discovery. It has been known since the 70's ice was on the south pole of the planet. The fact is that water is a) not going to get above freezing point on Mars and b) is no longer seriously considered as a basic requisite for life, since it is now felt that the required components for life vary too much with temperature and pressure to be sure what they are except on a case by case basis.
Judaism/Christianity/Islam:
"OK, so god created other beings on other worlds also. It doesn't say in our holy book that he DIDN'T"
Bhuddism:
"Well of course it's entirely probable that consciousnesses have reached that level of evolution in a universe so incomprehensibly vast"
I don't know enough about Sikhism or Hinduism to know what they say. But I do know that Hinduism is very broad about most things. I am told that their holy books can be read to the effect of "God may exist...or he may not".
I have little doubt that religion will survive far beyond this meagre discovery. It has been known since the 70's ice was on the south pole of the planet. The fact is that water is a) not going to get above freezing point on Mars and b) is no longer seriously considered as a basic requisite for life, since it is now felt that the required components for life vary too much with temperature and pressure to be sure what they are except on a case by case basis.
still, just one step further imo.
when we actually make contact/find a stargate/prothean ruins I will love to sea so much dogma get re-written to attempt to answer it.
hell, it doesn't even have to be anything special, single cell life is still life.
when we actually make contact/find a stargate/prothean ruins I will love to sea so much dogma get re-written to attempt to answer it.
hell, it doesn't even have to be anything special, single cell life is still life.
Not to mention that it is believed the pre-cursors to RNA were formed by rushing currents and clay crystals.
Ah see now the Religious pray that that is true, because it comes out in support of the creation story being metaphor.
Breathing life into clay and all that?
Breathing life into clay and all that?
bit of a wild leap to believe that a text that was written however long ago, by a people that had no - apparent - knowledge of "the theory of evolution" actually worked out that we can from SCO's and thus "breathed life into clay".
thats a bit of a stretch if you ask me, lol.
thats a bit of a stretch if you ask me, lol.