MonSFFA met up with Leybl, editor of CyberCozen back in October, and we started an exchange programme.  You read Leybl’s review of People of the Circle in WARP 97. In this issue of CyberCozen Leybl reprints Keith’s review of Powerless.

From Leybl Botwinik, CyberCozen editor:

This month’s issue is packed with all sorts of goodies and sweet stuff
All in honour of the upcoming Purim festival on the 12th.

The lead article is about the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system’s 7 planets in the Goldilocks zone, and asks the question: Does Judaism entertain the possibility of alien life? Read full article by Rabbi Benjamin Blech here: http://www.aish.com/ci/s/Judaism-and-Life-on-Other-Planets.html?s=mm  
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And for those of us who believe the account of creation as recorded in the Torah, are the opening words – “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” – meant as full disclosure of the creation of life by the Almighty or is this merely the information granted to Earthlings as necessary for our relationship with God but not purporting to reveal other manifestations of divine power and creativity? In short, can religious Jews believe in the possibility of alien life?

A question many religions will be grappling with; as our technology improves more habitable planets will be discovered.  Indeed, the TRAPPIST system isn’t even the first discovered. Back in August of last year, ESA announced the discovery of a possibly habitable planet orbiting Proxima Centauri:

The new planet circles Proxima Centauri, the smallest member of a triple star system known to science fiction fans everywhere as Alpha Centauri. Just over 4 light-years away, Proxima is the closest star to Earth, besides our own sun.  http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/?lang

But what are the probabilities of life on other planets being anything like us?  As Carl Sagan famously pointed out back in Cosmos, we can’t even communicate with the dolphins.  I think we will need to work out that problem long before we start getting into theology!