New Studies Show Christians Ready And Willing To Share Church Pews With "Spiritual" Extraterrestrials

World's Astronomers Sound Call To Build Gigantic Alien-Seeking Space Telescope 
With the Hubble Space Telescope aging and a newly revived Kepler Mission, many of the world's leading astronomers are championing the construction of The Advanced Technologies Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a concept for a space telescope with a mirror as large as 20 meters across — nearly ten times that of Hubble’s primary mirror — that NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute and others have been developing for several years now. It's a telescope so huge that it may need to be constructed by astronauts in space rather than being launched aboard a single rocket. “The time is right for scientific and space agencies around the world, including those in the UK, to take a bold step forward and to commit to this project,” Barstow said in a statement promoting a talk scheduled for this week at the Royal Astronomical Society National Meeting in Portsmouth, UK that will cover ATLAST’s potential for detecting hints of life in other solar systems.

There Are 'Tens Of Billions' Of Habitable Planets In Our Galaxy, Famous Astronomer Says: We'll Soon Learn We Are Not Alone In The Universe 
The question of whether humans are alone in the universe may have an answer sooner rather than later. In the past few years, thanks to NASA's extraordinary Kepler spacecraft, many extrasolar planets have been discovered, expanding the potential for finding habitable worlds. "What we do know that we didn't know, even a year ago, is what fraction of stars have planets that might be habitable," Shostak told The Huffington Post. "And these days, the answer is maybe one in five. That's a preliminary analysis of Kepler data. We now know that there are going to be lots of worlds out there where you could have life." Given the staggering number of potentially habitable planets now thought to exist by astronomers, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology was interested enough to invite...

Greetings! NASA Spacecraft To Carry Message Letting ‘Aliens’ Know Where We Are 
A NASA probe that's expected to leave the solar system after it finishes its mission at Pluto and beyond will carry a message intended for any alien life-form that comes across it in the far future.When NASA's New Horizons mission completes its study of Pluto in the summer of 2015, data from Earth will stream to the spacecraft to create a digital record that it will carry with it beyond the solar system. The record echoes the Golden Record carried by NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1970s and the plaques onboard the Pioneer spacecraft. Jon Lomberg, who served as design director for NASA's Voyager Golden Record, worked with late astronomer Carl Sagan and four others to select a series of sounds and images that were combined on a gramophone record as representative of Earth. When Lomberg realized that New Horizons would become the next object to leave the…

New Studies Show Christians Ready And Willing To Share Church Pews With "Spiritual" Extraterrestrials, Very Open To Exo-Vaticana ET Deception 
Despite initial concerns that some people of faith would suffer a crisis of faith if life on another planet were discovered, studies have shown that’s probably not going to be the case, Mr. Lovin said.Ted Peters, distinguished research professor of Systematic Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, surveyed 1,325 people of various religions, asking a series of questions relating their beliefs and a crisis of faith to a hypothetical announcement that extraterrestrial life had been discovered. Citing that study, Mr. Peters said the message he received from respondents is that people who belong to traditional religions are “going to be just fine” if alien life comes along. “I got comments such as ‘Earth is so small, God is so big, we would expect to have neighbors in space,’” Mr. Peters said. “My favorite quote was ‘I’d share a pew with an alien any day.’”