RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
May 1, 2017 at 11:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2017 at 11:29 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 1, 2017 at 12:51 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: A questions been bugging me since the start of this thread. Just how does one tell that you are close to finding something like alien life? It seems like you have either found it or not. It is not something that is being built up to or anything, where we only need one more piece of the puzzle.
The major technical advancement that accompanied efforts to find exoplanets is extremely sensitive and sophisticated signal processing techniques that allows observer to detect very minute changes to the spectrum of the light from a star when a planet orbiting the star transits in front of the star. The same technique can also separate out and detect the spectrum of the star light that passed through or reflected from any atmosphere of the said exoplanet. This allows detection and identification of component gases in the atmosphere of the planet that are chemically unstable and therefore imply continuous replenished through possibly biological processes.
(May 1, 2017 at 8:47 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: How we detect the planets and how we will look for life on them are two different projects.
No, some of the techniques developed to find transiting exoplanets also lend itself to identifying component gases in the atmosphere of these planets.
(April 30, 2017 at 9:57 pm)KUSA Wrote:(April 30, 2017 at 9:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: The Bible - of course - is best read in the original Klingon.
You can't prove it wasn't.
The Old Testament sounds like Klingon behavior. They probably had blood wine too.
Klingons would have killed so despotic a tyrant as the Old Testament jehovah.
(April 29, 2017 at 10:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 29, 2017 at 10:43 am)Whateverist Wrote: So basically you're saying that the religious are like cockroaches, mosquitoes and rats - likely to survive us and anything we can do to the planet.
Cockroaches have lodged a formal complaint against you for that comment.
Cockroaches are versatile and have the ability to survive independently. Religion Are pure parasites that would go extinct when the host specie goes extinct. Religion is therefore inferior to cockroaches.
