Comments on: Hawking says life exists in galaxy

By: USNavy_VET

USNavy_VET — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:35:44 +0000

God knew that man will be too busy concerning himself with life on this planet. Why should he complicate our lives by implying that other life forms exist? Isn’t it enough that he loves us and wants us to love, take care of and serve one another? What would be the use in our concern that other beings exist? I don’t care. I have more important things to worry about…my family, my loved ones and those who believe like I do that we should be kind and helpful to one another.

By: Rage

Rage — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:09:55 +0000

SETI or the S earch for E xtra T errestrial I ntelligence is privately funded by the Planetary society and other membership groups.

Exactly correct. And by the way, you can participate:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

By: BlueJay

BlueJay — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:59:29 +0000

“How much money has been spent trying to find ET life on Mars?

Why?

SETI or the S earch for E xtra T errestrial I ntelligence is privately funded by the Planetary society and other membership groups.

How much NASA has spent om Mars research in general would pale in comparison to Pentagon over budget for less than a year.

I guess it goes to what sort of a people we choose to be. Space exploration and science are one of the best of the things that we do.

Take the Mars rovers. Originally designed for a 90 day mission, they have exceeded their mission expectancy many fold.

And as to life in the universe. I like the way Sagan character Ann Arroway put it in “Contact”

“If it’s just us? It seems like an awful waste of space.”

By: bth

bth — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:21:19 +0000

WW – rage is correct. I think at least some of that happened because a name was already taken. At least in my case.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:04:24 +0000

“Many Christians believe in a place called Heaven where people who have passed away on earth live.

The Catholics say that Mary the mother of Jesus was taken to Heaven while still alive leading to the conclusion that Heaven is a physical place somewhere beyond.”

I believe that crap as much as I believe in UFO’s

By: Wiseman

Wiseman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:50:36 +0000

At this time the general public will not know the truth about those aliens for it is a highly evolved social club.
Hawking’s statement of “intelligent beings are rare in the universe”, it is ironic for him to say that, for that is what the lowly ants thinks of man and the ants know better for they have been around a lot longer then man.

By: WichiWomn

WichiWomn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:36:04 +0000

Thanks Rage! Yes, some I have figured out but it wasn’t easy since I don’t get to read the blog all the time. and I know PreD is RD.

LOL Linda.

By: theff48

theff48 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:36:03 +0000

I wonder if their oil is cheaper than where we get it from. Maybe they will export to us.

By: Chas

Chas — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:23:41 +0000

LOL Linda!!

By: lindainks55

lindainks55 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:23:07 +0000

WichiWomn, it is possible some from Rage’s list showed up on an UFO.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:17:49 +0000

WichWomn, here’s a few:
Maggotpunk = Doug
Franklin = Econ101
bth = Ben
BlueJay = J R
Nathaniel = Nathan
HLP = Hank
Wahine_Tara = Tara

There are some others, but I’ll let them expose themselves! (er, I mean. . .)

By: WichiWomn

WichiWomn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:04:14 +0000

with the new registration many of you have changed nics and I’m lost as to who is whom now. :(

By: Chas

Chas — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:54:43 +0000

Looks to me as if some folks need to open their little minds, and do some research and study into the UFO issue, before making half-witted comments. Hawkings is aa pure physicist; he deals in only what he can reproduce in a lab; the term in universities is called “theoretical physicist” Many universities have such a department… That is just factual — not imaginary… Do the study, before jumping to “weird” conclusions

By: Monkeyhawk

Monkeyhawk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:47:44 +0000

“TomPaine” asks –

“Why would aliens travel across the galaxy only to do anal probes on rednecks?”

It was the rednecks’ idea.

By: TomPaine

TomPaine — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:42:58 +0000

Why would aliens travel across the galaxy only to do anal probes on rednecks?

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:38:52 +0000

Of course people have seen UFO’s.

It is the assumption that those UFO’s are alien spacecraft and other things which is what makes them and others wierd.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:15:48 +0000

P.S. I’m still hoping for a science debate. I want Obama to elaborate on his administration’s space policy, for one thing.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:59:32 +0000

Thanks to one dumbass, irrelevant comment by Randy, what could have been an intelligent discussion of extraterrestrial life became a series of jokes about “little green men.”

Oh well.

By: Maggotpunk

Maggotpunk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:36:32 +0000

Kucinich never claimed to see aliens, he said he saw an UFO and explained that he called it an UFO because he didn’t know what it is.

As for life on other planets that’s just plausible due to the billions of stars and the trillions of planets surrounding those stars. It’s just playing the odds. Of course the odds of life in the universe is 100%, otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this.

By: StevenEDavis

StevenEDavis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:09:33 +0000

When Dennis Kucinich saw the UFO, he was with Shirley McClain. She was the crank and weirdo that drew the craft, I am sure…

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:22:42 +0000

“To Serve Man” remember this one?

Colbert report last week had a guy with patches from different military organizations. That was one of the patches.

By: bth

bth — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:19:00 +0000

“To Serve Man” remember this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:16:46 +0000

How much money has been spent trying to find ET life on Mars?

Why?
I don’t imagine much. The budget of SETI runs, what?, the budget of a mom & pop burger joint? The real reason we’re even looking at Mars is continued knowledge, plus it’ll make a great retreat for the CEOs and industrialists after they’re done butchering the planet we have now. What is NASA’s budget? 2 days or 3 of the Iraq war?

By: ghotiphaze

ghotiphaze — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:11:25 +0000

“How does this guy know that there is life in our galaxy or not? He hasn’t been out there. I think he’s the weirdo.”

I know I’m butchering this old saying, but whether there is other life in the universe or not, it’s a very sobering concept.
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You’d think Hawking would be smart enough to remember the meaning of the ‘U’ in UFO. Personally, I can’t buy a civilization investing the resources of a planet or stellar system and the time to travel tens to hundreds of light years
just to visit a backwater ‘berg of a planet and steal cattle sex organs.

By: RFL

RFL — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:07:20 +0000

Isn’t this how scientists in astrophysics justify their existence by proposing bold new theories that stretch the imagination in order to keep the research grants flowing in?

How else would it make sense to burn through millions of grant money, massive funding for NASA, etc. to find ET life if there were no scientists popping up every once in a while proposing that such life exists?

How much money has been spent trying to find ET life on Mars?

Why?