RE: NASA Finds Amino Acids on Impossible Meteorite, Improves Chances E.T. Exists
December 19, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Is it just me, or does it seem like every time we find an organic chemical anywhere, it makes E.T. more likely.
I mean, it's not wrong, but it's not really surprising either. You'd think the media and many journalists who report on these things thought there was nothing but granite, hydrogen, and dust outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
I mean, what would really be surprising is if the arsenic DNA thing were confirmed to be real or we find evidence that silicon-based life is possible. That would be a truely surprising and revolutionary development.
I mean, it's not wrong, but it's not really surprising either. You'd think the media and many journalists who report on these things thought there was nothing but granite, hydrogen, and dust outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
I mean, what would really be surprising is if the arsenic DNA thing were confirmed to be real or we find evidence that silicon-based life is possible. That would be a truely surprising and revolutionary development.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
