[NYer]

The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest active astronomical observatories in the world, with its roots going back to 1582 and the reform of the Julian calendar. Papal interest in astronomy can be traced to Pope Gregory XIII who had the Tower of the Winds built in the Vatican in 1578 The observatory in its present form was officially founded in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII. Today there are 13 Jesuits from 6 countries throughout the world on staff of the Observatory.

With the continuously increasing population of Rome the skies above the Observatory again became too bright. In 1981, for the first time in its history, the Observatory founded a second research center, the Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG), in Tucson, Arizona, one of the world’s largest and most modern centers for observational astronomy.

The Observatory staff have offices at Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona where they also have access to all of the modern telescopes located in the Tucson area. In 1993 the Observatory, in collaboration with Steward Observatory, completed the construction of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope ( VATT ) on Mt. Graham, Arizona, probably the best astronomical site in the continental United States. This is the first optical-infrared telescope of the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO), a project which in the coming years will see the construction of some of the world’s most sophisticated and largest telescopes.

[NYer]

The library at Castel Gandolfo contains more than 22,000 volumes and possesses a valuable collection of rare antique books including works of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Brahe, Clavius, and Secchi. In addition there is a unique meteorite collection from which a knowledge of the early history of the solar system is being derived. Research results are published in international journals.

Ping!

[iowamark]

live video at:

http://www.ebi2014.org/

[Buckeye McFrog]

Today’s second collection will be for the Missions to the Pagan souls on Rigel 7....

[Rapscallion]

Finding intelligent alien life is improbable. Most likely we will find life in robotic form. Just as we are doing to fulfill our destiny....robotics.

[DManA]

Father Guido Sarducci:

Well, there's this-a new planet that they spotted. It's gonna be something, it's got these-a astronomers baffled in the house. [ holds up photo of the galaxy ]

This is it right-a here, I hope-a you can-a see it. They call it SS-433, and they found out it's-a coming toward Earth at 30,000 miles a second. But.. it's also going away from Earth at 30,000 miles a second. It seems-a to be coming and-a going. It just breaks all the laws of physics, they don't know what to make of it.

So I went to the-a Vatican library, looked up these old archives - you know we've been-a involved with astronomy and astrology for years and years , hundreds of years. And, I did-a find it, in-a this old book. The planet was called Vienne et Viennu Planet.. it means A-Coming and A-Going Planet.. and the book says that there is life there, and it's-a very interesting. It says that everyone there lives to be 200 years old.

But it's not like they get to be real old.. what happens is, they get to 100, then they start going back again. It's like, 70, 80, 90, 100.. then, 90, 80, 70, 60.. then you're like a teenager again, then you know a kid again, and then you know.. you have to go back. I understand this-a little article says it's even-a more tramautic than-a being born.

And what's interesting - people on this planet, just from looking at one another, they can't tell who's-a coming and who's-a going. So, like, maybe two peple meet, they're 20 years old, a fellow and a girl. They're 20, and first you know, he's 22 and she's 18.. then, you know, he's-a 25 and she's-a 15.. and you know pretty soon you find yourselves in a lot of trouble, and then the first thing, you got a little baby on your hands, you know?

[a fool in paradise]

[Mrs.Z]

There is an interesting book out: Exo-Vaticana

Check it out.

[SkyDancer]

Will the aliens that abducted that 777 be invited?

[afsnco]

Are they talking about the alien (demonic) lifeforms that indwell their child molesting priests and people like Pelosi, Obama, etc.?

[GraceG]

God only made life on earth and that life is only 6,000 years old because there is no way God could have filled theuniverse with life because it is not explicitly spelled out inthe bible that god himself wrote and you can tell god wrote it because his name is on the copywright page dag nabbit...

[mikrofon]

[familyop]

Some “alien life forms” come from southern Europe.

[Coleus]

Next, the church will be baptizing cyborgs!