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Plankton in the Clouds
An anonymous reader writes "NASA is reporting that the September 1997 Pacific hurricane, Nora, was able to deliver sea salt and plankton as far inland as Oklahoma. The tale-tell signs of prismatic light halos around cirrus clouds pointed to ice crystals with nucleated hexagons and sea-salted clouds. Various proposals have been made previously about such 'life in the clouds' proposals on other planets like Jupiter and Venus."
religion does seem like it'd have a cow. After all there are people out there who still belive the earth is flat and we're riding through the universe on the back of a turtle.
Personally I couldnt care less about the religious people anymore.. I've lived in the bible belt for so long i'm immune to some of the residents' 'blind faith'. Blind faith has always bothered me to no end. Even when I was a naive kid of 5 or 6. I believed what my parents told me to believe; but i didnt like it. None of it made any sense to me. After a while, i honestly believed that all the religious stories were just that... something to tell to kids so that they wouldn't bug you about all the 'why' questions. It wasn't until I was working on my associate's degree in a biology class when i realized.... people actually believe all those fairy tales they've been force-fed during their childhood. These people actually honestly believe that they're right and the 80-90+% of the rest of the world is wrong. That revelation made me lose faith about 99.99%
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The big deal is that it would cause all the religious people to freak out, and they would have to rewrite their religion in a major way.
You're painting with an awfully big brush there. I don't know of many religions where "life only exists on earth" is a major doctrine.
I'm sure there are some people for whom it is a strongly held belief, but for each one of those there are many more who do not have a strong belief either way, and even quite a few for whom the discovery of life on other planets would be a validation of their faith.
May I suggest that you take a class on the religions of the world? I think you would find it an informative experience.
TTFN