Neil deGrasse Tyson Advocating for NASA Funding

I've read recently that NASA funded a study on the effect that discovery of alien life would have on theology. I don't know if that is true, but if it is, I would give them a William Proxmire "Golden Fleece" award, or a Laugh-In "Fickle Finger of Fate."

That seems like a valid question to me....

http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-would-christianity-deal-with-extraterrestrials-1609896927

It depends on whether we're talking about alien life (like microbes) or alien intelligent life. I suspect the former would not have much of an impact. If the latter, I suspect the impact would be major, not only for religion but for everything else.

For intelligent alien life to come here, they would be far more advanced than we are. I'm not sure what we would have to offer. The best we could hope for is that they would be interested in studying us. The worst would be that we might be considered a unique delicacy for the table.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/spinoff-2016-highlights-space-technologies-used-in-daily-life-on-earth

More dramatic version...

I have no problem with the question, at all. Because the answer is, there is no life out there....period.

We won't find anything in the way of life out there. Just sterile voids of matter and vaccuum, that go eternally in all directions from here.

Let me turn this question around on its head: If we came from a lightning strike on a pond of primordial soup, why aren't scientists all around the globe trying to recreate the results in the lab? Shouldn't they be hoping for the same result, and hailed as pioneers, or proving the LACK of an existence on God? Shouldn't they be pouring gobs of money at it, like we do to explore other planets in search of that ever elusive life elsewhere......? After all, life happened completely randomly, right??

I mean, it should only take a little while to recreate the best possible circumstances for it to happen, right?? Lab scientists, universities, etc., should be able to shave a trillion years off of the first time it happened, right?? Or, how about shaving 999 billion years off of it? Or, how about shaving off an additional 999 million years??

If scientists REALLY believed life on earth happened that way, why aren't they setting about proving it??

For one minor glitch in your rant, you can't shave a trillion years off something that is only about 13.8 billion years old. (And especially if you go on to believe only 6000 years old.)

Prove it! Prove that it is only 13.8 billion years old. Prove how old the universe is, while you're at it.

Since you say I was on a rant, go ahead and prove what you base YOUR PREMISE on, for which you criticize my questions......go ahead! I can't wait to see this......

And, to your assumption, why couldn't scientists recreate in the lab, in say, 5 years, what it took "13.8 billion years" to happen randomly......by creating the best possible primordial soup?

AGAIN, why aren't universities and labs across the globe pouring money into THAT???

It would be a hull-of-a-lot cheaper than exploring other worlds......AND, prove the same thing.

It would prove all the Darwinists, the happenstancers, correct......

So, why aren't they trying?

(Perhaps because they know it is futile??)

That may be the most offensively damned stupid question I have ever heard. For starters, make up your mind whether the universe is trillions of years old versus 6000 years old. There is pretty good evidence for ~13.8 billion years. Your use of prove/proof is improper.

NASA = Nothing Accomplished Since Apollo

While I was a fan of the agency as a child, I'm one of those who firmly believes the agency should be scrapped, the crusty overpaid senior citizens making the decisions retired, put out to pasture, given the gold watch, etc...

Then we'll have the $$$$ to create a new NASA-II agency created and staffed with 'young-uns' (mean age 24.75 years old) and no one over 30 allowed to have a permanent office with a door!

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Advocating for NASA