Philae is an ancient city of Egypt and it has an obelisk with bilingual inscriptions which was very helpful for translating old languages. This made it a good complement for the primary Comet 67P spacecraft which was named for the Rosetta Stone which has also been crucial for translating ancient languages.
After a hard landing on Comet 67P, Philae went to sleep but reawakened some weeks ago. Philae, Egypt, is unlikely to reawaken as it was flooded by the Aswan Dam project so you might want to skip looking for it until the next geological age. (WIKI: Philae)
Temple of Isis from Philae (relocated to Agilkia Island in Lake Nasser)
Some of the latest pictures from Philae have just been published in "Science" and they show extraordinary detail. The one below is from a range of nine meters or almost thirty feet. (ESA: Space in Images)
The pictures from the New Horizons fly-by of Pluto were spectacular but all of them were at a range of thousands of kilometers whereas the range for this image is about the height of most suburban homes.
(Ed: it looks like dirt)
Thanks, Oklahoma, but we're interested in the content of the dirt. The reason for the interest is the presence of molecules of high significance toward the synthesis of life. There's not much sound on Philae but if you listen closely you will hear the sound of fundamentalist religion disintegrating.
The biggest revelations of planetary research haven't been so much a matter of a difficult search for precursors to life but rather finding them all over the place. Where space had once seemed infinitely sterile, it gets more organic with each research project they conduct.
Maybe it looks like dirt or it's all that's left of any idea that God made man in his own image. The new evidence from Philae is intriguing but the sheer number of stars destroyed the concept a long time ago. Either God made all those stars just for filler and humans are the only living beings or there are two other possibilities. Either all the creatures on the other stars look like humans as well or the Universe has one shitload of infidels.
After a hard landing on Comet 67P, Philae went to sleep but reawakened some weeks ago. Philae, Egypt, is unlikely to reawaken as it was flooded by the Aswan Dam project so you might want to skip looking for it until the next geological age. (WIKI: Philae)
Temple of Isis from Philae (relocated to Agilkia Island in Lake Nasser)
Some of the latest pictures from Philae have just been published in "Science" and they show extraordinary detail. The one below is from a range of nine meters or almost thirty feet. (ESA: Space in Images)
The pictures from the New Horizons fly-by of Pluto were spectacular but all of them were at a range of thousands of kilometers whereas the range for this image is about the height of most suburban homes.
(Ed: it looks like dirt)
Thanks, Oklahoma, but we're interested in the content of the dirt. The reason for the interest is the presence of molecules of high significance toward the synthesis of life. There's not much sound on Philae but if you listen closely you will hear the sound of fundamentalist religion disintegrating.
The biggest revelations of planetary research haven't been so much a matter of a difficult search for precursors to life but rather finding them all over the place. Where space had once seemed infinitely sterile, it gets more organic with each research project they conduct.
Maybe it looks like dirt or it's all that's left of any idea that God made man in his own image. The new evidence from Philae is intriguing but the sheer number of stars destroyed the concept a long time ago. Either God made all those stars just for filler and humans are the only living beings or there are two other possibilities. Either all the creatures on the other stars look like humans as well or the Universe has one shitload of infidels.
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The Catholic view of "in His own image" is that it references the soul, not the physical form. Since Vatican II, it's also been the view of the Church that alien life would also fit that category - that the concept of saving grace is not restricted to human life on Earth.
So yes, Fundamentalist religions would definitely struggle with the concept of non-terrestrial life, but not Roman Catholic beliefs. (I'm not sure about the Eastern Orthodox views.)
Everything we've discovered in the last 50 years leads me, at least, to the conclusion that life throughout the universe is abundant.
In the image of the soul works as otherwise, I see you agree, you'd be faced with an astounding number of infidels. I don't know if Islam makes the cut as I doubt Allahu Aliens will go well with brother Muhammed. Eastern as in Greek Orthodox seems so close to Catholic I'd guess they would not object much.
Fundamentalists have been become such a flaming nuisance from any religious persuasion that I recommend waiting for the next above-ground nuclear test so we can give them red shirts and make them all run around in the desert. Maybe you wonder what good the red shirt will do but it won't do any good. They're screwed.
I saw they found a 'sister planet' to Earth the other day ... but it was already radioactive (larfs).
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