Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz
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first heard Jul 2026
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As the ambassador for all of the world's religions.
And even within Christianity, there's a wide variety of orientations towards the existence of aliens.
For example, Mormons, aliens are part of the religion.
In fact, in the past, there has been funding moved through Congress by Mormon congresspeople because they have a vested interest in proving the existence of alien life.
And there are plenty of examples of other major religions that routinely acknowledge the possibility or believe in the existence of these others beyond Earth.
So for some religions, it might present some kind of problem, but for others, it really doesn't.
Yeah, I think it's not just scientists at the SETI Institute per se.
I think in general, you know, over the years that I've been in astronomy, I hear a lot of my colleagues who work on the search for life say,
express a great deal of optimism and hope about what impact their research will have.
And so you hear scientists who are engaged in the technical search for life, whether it's through SETI or astrobiology, express that they think this will be such a transformative event.
But then, of course, you look at the surveys of even just the United States public, right?
And you see that for a wide variety of people, they already believe that aliens exist somewhere in the universe.
which I think scientists do as well.
It's just that for scientists, we want definitive evidence.
We want to be able to prove it through scientific approaches.
And for a lot of people, just sort of thinking it's true is perfectly sufficient.
And then, of course, some fraction of those folks also think that people are being visited by alien life, that there are landings here on this planet, etc.,
So clearly what, you know, we as scientific researchers perceive as being this like huge transformation for many people who are not practitioners of science, like that transformation, if it was going to happen, has already happened in the past or maybe isn't as significant to them.
And so that's definitely a disconnect in what I think my, you know, community of fellow like astrobiologists and SETI scientists think the impact of their work is.
could be and what its actual impact might be.
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