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How the Webb Space Telescope Will Support the Search for Alien Life. Webb will be a "game changer" in our understanding of distant worlds, scientists say.
https://gizmodo.com ^ | Mar 23, 2022 | By Nick Young

Posted on 03/23/2022 10:58:22 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/23/2022 10:58:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Let’s go find Fermi’s Paradox.


2 posted on 03/23/2022 11:01:32 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Red Badger

As the hymn goes. . . we’ll understand it better by and by. The scientists would do well to put at least some of their energies in seeking the Creator of the Universe for answers.


3 posted on 03/23/2022 11:08:33 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinjesus.com/)
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To: Red Badger

I worked as an engineer in one of the world’s greatest and largest observatories in the world.
I came to this conclusion. What a SCAM!
All they do for the most part is to try and prove that all our religions are wrong. That may be the case.
however unless you can figure out a way to traverse
the vastness of our universe, so what?
the nearest stars to us are four years at the speed of light.
We don’t even know how to get to that speed with our present technology.
If there is somebody out there that can do that travel, who is not a god, then they obviously they don’t want to deal with us, or we’d be dead, enslaved, or whatever.
I prefer to take the traditional route.
We are unique. We all were made, however it was done, or however long it took, in the image of God.
HE gave us a fantastic place to live, exploit, and explore.
Rather than try to prove life is else where, how about making life better for life here first?


4 posted on 03/23/2022 11:24:43 AM PDT by rellic
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To: rellic
HE gave us a fantastic place to live, exploit, and explore.

Yes, it's called The Universe.....................

5 posted on 03/23/2022 11:29:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: fishtank
"How the Webb Space Telescope Will Support the Search for Alien Life."

The Webb Space Telescope would have a better chance of success in the search for these creatures:


6 posted on 03/23/2022 11:39:05 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Red Badger

Agreed.
However, unless you can control that space/time warpage. We have limits.
Like the man said “you need to know your limits”.
Our’s is 300 X 10^6 meters per second.

BTW we don’t even know what gravity is and how it works.
Let’s get our own home in order and then go for the universe.


7 posted on 03/23/2022 11:39:13 AM PDT by rellic
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To: rellic

Right on!


8 posted on 03/23/2022 11:39:25 AM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconceptions.)
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To: Carl Vehse

This is intended to be humor!
I know of a place where pigs fly.
LAPD helicopters.

Don’t zot me for that!


9 posted on 03/23/2022 11:41:41 AM PDT by rellic
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To: Red Badger; rellic

Good Call FRiends!
We Are Unique,
Fearfully and Wonderfully
Made in Gods Likeness.
The Heavens Declare it!


10 posted on 03/23/2022 11:53:24 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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To: Red Badger

We discover life 9 Billion light years away. Well, ok.


11 posted on 03/23/2022 11:57:44 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Agreed.

There are millions of people alive today all over the world claiming they have talked with alien intelligences of some sort.

Science’s approach is to declare such people crazy and start hunting for alien life millions of light years away...

I wonder who is really crazy....

Fun and interesting reading—first in a series:

https://www.amazon.com/Humanoid-Encounters-AD-1899-Others-amongst/dp/1542722055


12 posted on 03/23/2022 12:01:47 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: fishtank

Let’s go find Fermi’s Paradox.

or

Let’s go confirm the Dark Forest Theory.


13 posted on 03/23/2022 12:04:13 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

““I just can’t imagine this level of complex argument on a planet we know nothing about,” Seager said. “We might find some signs, but it’s nothing that people are ever going to be able to prove in any way.””

This makes sense. I think some people are overselling Webb. Webb is just another step down the path of learning about the universe.


14 posted on 03/23/2022 12:10:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: PIF; All

I just learned that Albert Einstein did not really exist. You see, he was just a theoretical physicist.


15 posted on 03/23/2022 12:16:16 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

I just learned that Albert Einstein did not really exist. You see, he was just a theoretical physicist.

Neither do we, as we are just representations in someone else’s simulation. Neither did James Clerk Maxwell, without whom Einstein would have remained an obscure postal clerk.


16 posted on 03/23/2022 12:19:33 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

Space aliens will see Webb coming and hide from the low lifeform ignoramouses of the universe.


17 posted on 03/23/2022 1:08:57 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: cgbg

I peeked at Your link,
Very Interesting.
“Space Monkeys” as I call them are always entertaining.


18 posted on 03/23/2022 1:26:05 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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To: Big Red Badger

Science just can’t deal with the “weird”.

It is their Achilles Heel, because new “weird” stuff is data that can help us create new paradigms.

A scientist seeing and hearing a radio for the first time would take it apart and look at all the little pieces—wondering which piece held the talking people.

After they could not find that piece they would call the radio “useless junk”.


19 posted on 03/23/2022 1:32:13 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: rellic

Yea, let’s stay oblivious of the universe.
We can spend that money on tats, booze and drugs.
Screw physics, astronomy, heck why not all the sciences as a too expensive endeavor.

People like you may be fine wallowing n the mud, some of us what to learn and know. Last I checked, we weren’t the ones costing society to crash.

The more I know about the universe the more firmly I believe in God


20 posted on 03/23/2022 1:37:23 PM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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