Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Is it on another planet?
(Score 1) 405  by DwySteve (#34418494) Attached to: NASA Finds
New Life (This Afternoon)  And more importantly, it would mean
end of religions, unless we want to fool ourselves now on new,
grandiose scale.  How do you figure? I don't recall any
religions based on the tenant that arsenic-based life is
impossible. Even the Catholic Church's official position on
sentient alien life is that there's no reason it can't exist. It
just introduces a bunch of largely philosophical questions about
whether Jesus's sacrifice was just for us or for all sentient
life and whether we have to start proselytizing. Read C.S.
Lewis's space trilogy if you want a Christian perspective on
alien life.  Comment: Re:These aren't cost overruns (Score 1)
153  by DwySteve (#34207860) Attached to: James Webb Space
Telescope Cost Overruns Adding Up  This is why I would love to
see the government sue people who grossly underbid contracts.
Governments typically ask companies to bid