Well, We’ll Have To See . . .

Drudge is linking a story on Central Florida News 13 which is now inaccessible due to high traffic volume, so here’s a mirror of what it says:

Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life in our own solar system.

Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.

Official word is expected this afternoon at 2 p.m. We’ll have complete coverage of today’s big news when it is released. Tune to News 13 for the complete story.

I’m skeptical, but we’ll have to see.

UPDATE: Well, I was right. There was no announcement of possible extraterrestrial life. One of the high-IQ boys in the MSM failed to understand the nature of the press release he was reading.

What NASA did announce is the possible discovery of liquid water geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Enceladus

GET THE STORY.

The Daily Planet adds:

Wink Blinkley, NASA chief of lost planets and planetoids, was ecstatic about the discovery: "It’s so cool to discover water geysers on one of the moons of Saturn! Not only, that, but it’s on a completely unknown moon! Nobody ever heard of Enceladus before. We’ve known for a long time that Saturn had moons, like Titan–the biggest moon in the solar system. But nobody knew that Saturn also had a moon named Enceladus, let alone that it had liquid water geysers! This is a double-discovery of stunning proportions!"

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

23 thoughts on “Well, We’ll Have To See . . .”

  1. A far as I know, we’ve known of life in the solar system for many years and it’s always been relatively close to the earth. I’m so close to it, I sometimes even walk on it.
    That whole thing sounds like a joke. Can you name the closest star to the Earth? The Sun.

  3. NASA scientists deciphered the following coded radio message, picked up by the Very Large Array;
    “It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet. But if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.”.
    Or it might have been a recipe…
    They’re not sure.
    Klaatu barada nicto!

  5. The water announcements probably the source. Which means they have found nothing. Just water, which *could* hold life.

  7. Actually, there was an answer to the messages sent out with our Voyager spacecraft. They both had recordings that showed how to find us, what we look like, greetings from various heads of state, and music(including Bach, Beethoven, Chuck Berry, and Glenn Miller). The reply was only 4 words, but it proves that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe: “Send more Chuck Berry!”

  8. If there are intelligent physical beings out there, we ought to prepare to “assimilate” them.
    Catholici sumus. Peccatum futilis. Baptizari parate.

  10. Tim J,
    Good quote! Always thought that movie would be worth remaking, with a post 9/11 perspective.

  11. “Or it might have been a recipe…”
    Yeah, any alien who comes toward me holding a book called “To Serve Man” is not my friend! 😉

  12. Well, we know one thing for sure: there is no intellegent life in this solar system. None at all.

  13. This is all starting to have a familar ring. Officials have a press announcement then retract it and say the story was misrepresented. It has a “Roswell weather balloon” feel to it doesn’t it? The truth is out there, isn’t it?

  14. For the Latin-impaired
    Translation:
    We are Catholics. Sin is futile. Prepare to be baptized.

  17. Father Stephanos, may I please have permission to pass that joke onto my elder brother? He would love it!
    I cracked up at our local news’ report on the water. They led with “There may be proof of life on other planets” and then said “life may be possible if there’s water”.

  18. Well … Jean … it wasn’t a joke.
    ==
    CATHOLICI SUMUS. PECCATUM FUTILIS. BAPTIZARI PARATE.
    We are Catholics. Sin is futile. Prepare to be baptized.
    ==
    Go ahead and pass it on to your elder brother. Just don’t tell the Borg.
    (If anyone makes a bumper sticker or t-shirt with that, please send me free samples.)

  20. Hey guys, humankind would be out there exploring the planets by now if the Catholic Church hadn’t put the brakes on science and technology, and in particular astro-physics. Let’s assume there’s a narrow window of opportunity (say 200 years) to get colonies started on adjacent planets and spread out before the earth becomes untenable. Well thanks to you Bible bashers, we may well have blown it. Or at best it will be a close run thing. Face it, religion is for insecure, misguided, weak-minded, risk-adverse losers, exploited by control-freak tyrants. Wake up and smell the new reality. Not a fan; you can tell.
    Sure, I’ll never get to Heaven now. Heaven for the view, Hell for the company.

  22. Andrew: I think you over-estimate the power of the Catholic Church.
    I also think you need to restrict the number of science fiction movies you watch and start living in the real world.

  23. MLC’s right, Andrew.
    (MLC, just don’t let on that we have ways of tracing his computer, we know where he lives, and have already dispatched an albino monk in a black helicopter to deal with him.)

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