But how did sewage water get in there?

"The stinking reddish liquid turned out to be sewage that penetrated the sarcophagus through a small crack and completely flooded it from the inside."

http://earth-chronicles.com/science/the-first-details-of-the...

Most probably it's not "sewage" water but "corpse decomposition water"

corpse decomposition water won't last 2000+ years especially if not frozen. Probably the coffin was porous or had crack from where the sewage water seeped into the coffin from a nearby leaking sewage pipeline.

If that's the case - then it's quite precious. Analysis of this water would reveal a lot.

I've never figured out why people think technological growth would be exponential indefinitely.

Theories don't all implicate the US government. There are notions of Russian/Cuban involvement, for example.

No, the theory put forward by the U.S. government was that he was a lone actor (with Communist sympathies).

Had we believed that an agent of a foreign state had assassinated our head of state, we'd have been obliged to go to war.

I used to live in Las Vegas, and before that SF. Downtown Las Vegas (not the strip) looks a lot like SF's bar rows. Once it became a tiny tech hub the usual culture was imported, grafted onto the surrounding Las Vegas milieu.

It can't take pictures in Jupiter's atmosphere?

The spacecraft is at Saturn. During its final time, it will not have the transmission speed to send pictures, though it will send atmospheric measurements until the very end.

It could, but the Deep Space Network is the bottleneck 100kbit speeds and hours round trip makes getting the data difficult in best conditions, eg. orbiting out by titan

Does this delete private messages? Or can recipients still see your messages and name.

when I first deleted my Facebook account, I decided to keep tabs on it(letting a friend check if she could still see messages we exchanged). For a while, my name was shown as part of the message(but it was black, so you could not click it like a link). I made her check later on and it just said "Unknown user" or so, I cannot recall the exact phrase. Our messages were still there

"Facebook User" is what used to show up on my inbox, for deleted accounts.

Sometimes a bad location really can sink you. A new restaurant with great food at reasonable prices also may not catch on soon enough for a number of reasons and get dealt a kill date.

Took me a minute.

My mother told me this when I was a kid.

Finding the existence of life on another planet holds MAJOR implications for many organized and unorganized religions. It would tell us whether abiogenesis and life is common, or something truly unique.

So while discovering life on another planet wouldn't answer exactly "why we are here", it would go a hell of a long way in shaping our answers to that question.

I apologize for being semantic, but I think that would answer the 'how' rather than the 'why.' I understand what you're saying though. As for the religious, well... I believe they will absolutely find a way for there not to be any major implications. New findings will be absorbed into the obfuscatory practice of apologetics.

Yeah, I really used the first questions as a way to give importance to how big the "Are we alone?" question is on the scale of humanity.

That is to say, that arguably "Why are we here" is the only question of more significance than "Are we alone?"

If this telescope can answer the second most important question to humanity, that's pretty good.

Already been done, see CS Lewis

I can't believe you like the idea of discovering alien life so you can use the discovery to troll religions. Surely there's other reasons why this is exciting?!

I always thought the big deal of finding life on other planets would be to deal a major blow to creationism.

Even a negative finding holds important implications: if we successfully survey all of the exoplanets within 100 to 1000 light years and find no life or anything even close being habitable for humans, then it would gravely inform us of the ways in which we must preserve the Earth that we have.

...and also it would be cited by creationists as proof that they're right.