When we discover organisms on other planets...
 

Will Christians say God put them there to test our faith?

Or will those organisms rise up, evolve super quick and within 2 days destroy all of humanity?

Oh the questions... oh the questions.

I'm asking myself this question since I was a kid...

Read the entire 2001 series by Arthur C. Clarke.

Didn't we already discover some micro organisms in other planets??

Orgasms on other planets? :Graucho

Um single cell organisms typically do not rise up and and destroy everything in 2 days. Shit says they would remain in a high level lab and be played with. Then odds say what we first would discover would be fossils of early organisms.

Since you're clearly an expert on foreign atmospheres, and evolutionary chambers I will take your word on it.

Obviously I am wrong in assuming perhaps other worlds may evolve at different rates than we did. It's always good to have a resident expert on tap to fall back on.

I think Star Trek Voyager had an episode where they were orbiting a planet that was caught in some sort of accelerated temporal state... and time moved faster the further down into the planet's atmosphere that you got.

From the perspective of the Voyager crew, they were stuck in orbit around the planet for a few days - yet from the perspective of the humanoids on the planet, thousands of years had passed... and they had gone from living in caves to having a space program of their own.

Who knows what freaky shit's out there. We don't even have a unified theory yet.

Yes, we did.

Im no expert smart ass :winkwink:

I am just going with typical science at this time and logical probabilities. Unless of course SETI or Voyager hit pay dirt and then odds dictate we would be fucked if anything out there is able to get here by itself. Hawkings pretty much covers that issue very well.

How about Star Trek III when the genesis project accelerated all the cell development instantly!

here is some links to feed your hatred

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...iImageID=80086

http://thecomingoftan.com/illuminate...ed~object.html


scroll down int he coming of tan..and then check out the corresponding nasa pics

probably just a long and drawn out chemical reaction, but cool nonetheless

Spock scared me in ST IV

You're mistaken, Gigolo. To date, we have not.

What we discovered was a rock that shows what some scientists consider evidence of fossilized organic life on Mars, and what others consider to be a Rock from god-knows where that's been contaminated by being on Earth for so long with no definitive fossilized evidence of anything anyway.

There's a good number of peeps that feel we could discover something on Mars (as it does appear that rivers of water once flowed on the planet - and have several probes both already there and on the way to look for signs of life), and hope to discover something on Jupier's moon, Europa (it's generally believed there's an ocean of water under the moon's icy surface - we have a mission in the works aiming to drill into that sea and scoop up a sample right now).

Insofar that we know, a requirement of life is liquid water... and there's plenty of water spread throughout our solar system (though most of it's not in liquid form at present)... so we keep looking as our society's budget for Big Science allows us.

Personally, I'm sure we'll find it soon enough... everything I've studied and know leads me to feel that "life" is the rule, and not the exception... but, we still haven't found life outside our own planet yet.

Why would they need to? The bible (which is supposed to be the basis of their religion), is only a history of specific events that occured on earth for a specific period of time. Any religion that thinks that their god might not have playgrounds elsewhere in the universe is reading into the bible far more than is there and thus makes their entire religion suspect.

Bumping for a phrase I remembered and quoted ever since :)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-Vatican.html

pope approve your thread

Each Galaxy has billions of stars, the universe that we can see has billions of galaxies. The sun is one star. Odds are there's at least one other planet out there with life on it. More than likely life is abundant throughout the universe.

Or Jesus from da outta space

I don't reckon religion has got long left now, it's being replaced with modern control mechanisms

In the past we could attack countries to "Spread the Word", whereas now it's to "Spread Democracy" or to "Fight Terrorism".

You could make the people in a country work hard by telling them "If you work hard you will go to heaven" whereas now we put people into debt so as they have to work hard to pay it off. (Mortgages, Student Debt etc)

For a sec there I thought Bradm had made his triumphant return instead of posting under his fake nick.

I recon there are creatures 1,000,000,000,000,000x the size of our galaxy.

If it ever happens the religious nuts will find an excuse. Probably something along the lines of "We can't question or hope to understand God's infinite wisdom."

They find excuses for everything else that proves it's a fairy story.

No, we haven't found life anywhere else yet. Mars is NOT the best place to find life. We may find fossilized life on Mars one day, but probably no life. Mars has no moten core and therefore no magnetosphere to protect it from Solar radiation like the Earth does. Solar radiation stripped mars of most of its atmosphere and any liquid water Mars may have had as mostly evaporated into space.

A much better contender for actual living life is Jupiter's moon Europa. While its surface is ice, its features change often leading scientists to believe that there is warm, liquid water below it. The heat to warm and even boil this water is coming from Gravitational forces of Jupiter. A small spaceship, something to drill into the ice and then launch a mini robotic submarine would be all it would take to hopefully find some life.