Sometimes, I’ll tune in to these atheist phone line shows on YouTube. It’s unfair, but it’s always the worst, dumbest, most ignorant Christians who call in to air their idiotic views publicly — maybe there are intelligent Christians out there, but they don’t call in to get skewered by atheists who know the Bible better than they do. Also, I enjoy hearing Matt shout, “SHUT THE FUCK UP” to some babbling ninny who can’t answer a simple question and chooses to instead try and overwhelm everyone with frenzied bullshit.
For example, this video titled “From Biblical Slavery to Alien DNA – Nebraska Steve Takes Us on Another Trip” is a good example of the genre. First the guy tries to say the Bible doesn’t endorse slavery, only to be trounced by the hosts reciting Bible verses at him. Then he segues to claiming there is evidence for God, although he can’t say what it was, in spite of repeated requests from the hosts to explain what that evidence was.
He did finally gasp out that “the WOW signal” is evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. In case you don’t know, here’s is the WOW signal.
In 1977, an astronomer named Jerry Ehrman was recording radio transmissions from space, and got a brief, strong signal that he didn’t understand, so he scribbled “Wow!” on the printout. I’ve seen this cited so often by so many people as a sign that aliens are out there.
It’s not. The observation has been repeated. It’s noise from a passing comet.
The explanation started to come into focus last year when a team at the CPS suggested that the signal might have come from a hydrogen cloud accompanying a comet—additionally, the movement of the comet would explain why the signal was not seen again. The team noted that two comets had been in the same part of the sky that the Big Ear was monitoring on the fateful day. Those comets, P/2008 Y2(Gibbs) and 266/P Christensen had not yet been discovered. The team then got a chance to test their idea as the two comets appeared once again in the night sky from November 2016 through February of 2017.
The team reports that radio signals from 266/P Christensen matched those from the Wow! signal 40 years ago. To verify their results, they tested readings from three other comets, as well, and found similar results. The researchers acknowledge that they cannot say with certainty that the Wow! signal was generated by 266/P Christensen, but they can say with relative assurance that it was generated by a comet.
Somehow, I don’t think Nebraska Steve would care.
The Wow signal was extraterrestrial but naturl caused by comet gas!?
Did NOT know that till now. Something new learnt tonight.
Wikipage : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/266P/Christensen
Hmm.. 6 year period very short orbit just inside Jupiter’s orbit to still outide of Mars, next perihelion Dec next year..
well, obviously, extraterrestrials are using the short period comets to surveil earth! and they cleverly encode their signal on the background noise given off by hydrogen cloud following the comets.
pretty sneaky you aliens!1!!1!1!111!!!!!1
Somehow I doubt that the comet explanation will make it into the “documentaries” on aliens broadcast by the history channel, TLC, and other trash TV outlets. It harshes their buzz.
We can learn more from the noise of passing comet than we can from most Christians.
Absence of evidence comes close to being evidence of absence for whether extraterrestrial intelligences are observing/interfering with Earth. But the universe is a freaking big place, and on that scale absence of evidence for aliens somewhere else in the universe (and perhaps many places, the universe is that big) is in now way evidence of absence. We’ll probably never be sure that there is someone else out there, but I see no reason to doubt that there is. Speculating about what they would be like can be fun, but almost certainly all that the real world can teach us about aliens is ways that they can’t be (no universal parasite aliens who can control your mind, etc.).
The foolish xtian terrorists believe in sky gods and more superstition. Why wouldn’t they be delusional in all aspects of their thoughts?
@1 StevoR wrote about ‘comet gas!?’
I reply: that seems to explain what powers these freaks (all the xtian freaks and tRUMP and the Felon Muskrat)
Yeah, the you tube atheist show thing is one of my guilty pleasures.
I keep expecting better from the religious folk though.
I can only take that kind of stuff in very small segments. about as long as I can tolerate trumps voice.
the way they always approach an argument is so forced and ass backward that it sounds like pure fantasy horse apples. I just can’t take very much more of it. It never changes and never even attempts to match the reality of the “world” as we see it.
Is there new evidence? Because the claim that it 266/P Christensen was rebutted:
http://naapo.org/WOWCometRebuttal.html
One of the damning pieces of evidence against it was that 266/P Christensen would have been in the wrong part of the sky to be the source of the Wow! signal.
Huh.. And no one has written a book, or scripted a movie about an ancient alien spacecraft, buried inside the comet, which has been transmitting a distress call for millions of years?
Also, to @10, the fact that the signal matched is odd, but suggests that maybe some percentage of comets “do” generate similar signals, and its a different, still unknown, comet that “was” in the right part of the sky at the time. Otherwise… why would they match, and only when a comet is present? That just seems.. odd. Because, the other explanation would have to be, “Yeah, there is something out there, and its trying to hide behind comets now, to confuse us.”, or something. Which would be neat, but… requires evidence.