Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 151

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Today's Topics:

   1. Schedule for Saturday 21st March 2026 (CCR TV)
   2. Searching for life in the universe (Nelson Lopes)
   3. Read: "The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:30:00 +0530
From: CCR TV <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 21st March 2026
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CCR TV GOA

Channel of God's love


You can also watch CCR TV Live 24X7 on YouTube.

Click the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/@CCRTV

Email ID: [email protected]


Schedule for Saturday 21st March 2026

12:00 AM

Rosary - Joyful Mysteries


12:23 AM

David and Goliath - Talk by Dr Silvia Noronha


12:58 AM

Special Prayer over the Sick - Joseph Vaz


1:00 AM

Mass in Konkani


1:45 AM

Vaittovea Ani Vaitta Add Zhuzunk Dev Amkam Adar Dita - Fr Edson Fernandes


2:00 AM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister


2:22 AM

Discernment - Talk by Sr Elsis Mathew MSMI


3:18 AM

Breaking Barriers through Dialogue - Tiatracho Fuddar kitem?


4:04 AM

Concert - Pilar Academy - Are You there?


5:51 AM

Health, Food and Bible - Episode 3


6:25 AM

Career Options for 10th Std Students - Science - Basil D'Cunha


6:55 AM

Hymn -I will sing - Choir Praise Adonai


7:00 AM

Praise and Worship - Agnes Barucha


7:28 AM

Music - Stuthi 2 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem


7:58 AM

Devachem Utor - Dusri Somurt - Avesvor 24 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


8:05 AM

Pirachit Kall - Talk by Fr Henry Falcao


8:34 AM

Tell me a Story - 1st anniversary CCR


9:00 AM

Jesus Heals - a talk by Fr. Saturnino Colaco


9:31 AM

Hanv povitr dekhum tumi i povitr zaiat - Gaurish Naik


10:00 AM

Rosary of St Joseph Vaz


10:22 AM

Mon Bodlop - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas


10:47 AM

Family - Talk by Godfrey Pereira


11:12 AM

Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Pilar - Vocation Promotion


11:22 AM

Angelus - English


11:24 AM

Intercessions


11:30 AM

Mass in English


12:15 PM

Daily Flash / Jivitacho Prokas


12:18 PM

Lenten Journey - Day 29 - Shirley Gonsalves


12:26 PM

Careers - Goa Jazz Academy


12:46 PM

Repentance - A talk by Carlos D'Souza


1:34 PM

Phishing in Troubled Waters - FED-EX scam - PI Vidyanand Pawar interviewed
by Daniel F. De Souza


2:09 PM

Confession - Talk by Fr Socorro Mendes


2:52 PM

Bhagiancher Niyall VI - Br Malvino Alfonso ocd


3:00 PM

Divine Mercy Chaplet


3:10 PM

Tumchi Bolaiki Tumchea Hatant - Episode 28 - Rabies - Dr. Wiseman Pinto,
Dr. Savio Rodrigues


3:56 PM

Biblical Web Series - Eps 2 - DCBA


4:00 PM

Rosary - Joyful Mysteries


4:23 PM

Prayer - Memorare - Read by Prof. Nicholas D'Souza


4:25 PM

Bible Project: Plot in Biblical Narrative


4:30 PM

Senior Citizens Exercises - 8


4:57 PM

Kids Programme Eps 2 - The right way - Manners while playing games


5:00 PM

The CCRTV Interview - Adv. Cleofato Coutinho interviewed by Shamiro Deniz


5:48 PM

The Examen - Talk by Syona Fernandes


6:00 PM

Mass in Konkani


6:45 PM

Talk for Youth - Fr Roland Coelho SJ


7:30 PM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister


7:52 PM

Prayer - Ugdas Kor (Memorare) - Read by Prof. Nicholas D'Souza


7:54 PM

Aimorechen Magnnem


7:57 PM

Radiating Christ A Prayer Attributed to John Henry Cardinal Newman Read by
Prof Nicholas D? Souza


8:00 PM

XINPY?NTLIM M?TYAM - Bhag 522 - MHELLE MOCHE - Fr. Pratap Naik SJ


8:08 PM

Devachem Utor - Dusri Somurt - Avesvor 25 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


8:13 PM

Amchem-xim Rav - A talk by Fr. Aaron Magalhaes


8:45 PM

Ratchem Magnem


9:00 PM

Adoration - Pastoral Letter 1.2 - Fr Onasis D'Cruz


9:30 PM

53rd Mando Festival - Amchem Diaz, Assolna - Dance


9:43 PM

Parish of the Week - Verna 4


10:03 PM

Sakramentantleam Jezuchi Bhet - Fr Agnelo Pinheiro


10:23 PM

Learning from the Sonship of Jesus - Leela Moraes


10:46 PM

LSS - You Shall be my Witnesses - Savio Mascarenhas


11:32 PM

Abundant Life - Behold I make all things new - Prof Nicholas D'Souza


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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:20:01 +0530
From: Nelson Lopes <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Goanet] Searching for life in the universe
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Searching for Life in the Universe

Are we truly alone in this vast universe?
When humanity itself struggles to live in harmony, will we ever be ready to
coexist with another species?

Wars have scarred and nearly destroyed the human race, yet they continue
unabated  even today. Science, despite its remarkable advancements, has not
yet discovered any clear or conceivable form of life beyond Earth.

Here on our own planet, countless species have already vanished, while many
others stand on the brink of extinction. In response, efforts are underway
to preserve humanity by exploring and colonising other worlds.

Yet, in our quest for the unknown and the beyond, we must not neglect what
we already have. The preservation of life?human, animal, and plant?must
remain our foremost duty. Every form of life has a right to exist, a right
that must not be overshadowed by human greed.

The future of humanity lies not only in discovering new worlds, but in
safeguarding the one we call home  ,pale blue dot so insignificant in the
universe

Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
https://lopesnelsonnat.wordpress.com


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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:33:06 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil"
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By: Bill McKibben [Bill McKibbenis a contributing writer at The New Yorker
focussing on climate policy. His books include *Here Comes the Sun: A Last
Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.]*
Published in: *The New Yorker*
Date: March 18, 2026

What if the drone is to warfare as the solar panel is to energy?

Since the U.S. and Israel began attacking Iran, President Trump has bragged
about ?totally destroying the terrorist regime? with ?unparallelled
firepower? and ?unlimited ammunition.? Yet Iran has still managed to halt
the flow of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for about a fifth
of the world?s oil. On Saturday, as gas prices neared their highest level
in years, Trump?s frustration seemed evident in a Truth Social post: ?We
have already destroyed 100% of Iran?s Military capability, but it?s easy
for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range
missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated
they are.? America?s high-tech war machine is coming up against inexpensive
upstart technologies?and it isn?t clear that we?re winning.

If Trump is wrong about American military dominance, then perhaps he?s also
wrong about what he calls American energy dominance. His Administration has
long promised to ?unleash? American oil; last week, his Energy Secretary,
the former fracking executive Chris Wright
<https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trumps-department-of-energy-gets-scienced>,
used the Iran war to explain why BP would be allowed to drill in the deep
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. ?At a time when Iran and its terrorist
proxies attempt to disrupt the global energy supply, the Trump
Administration remains committed to strengthening American energy
dominance,? Wright said. But America?s fossil-fuel machine should be ready
to face an inexpensive upstart technology, too. What if the drone is to
warfare as the solar panel is to energy?

Because drones are very cheap, you can make many thousands of them, and
hide them anywhere. Smaller unmanned aircraft don?t need a military
airstrip to launch. Drones and ballistic missiles can often be intercepted,
but the U.S. and Israeli militaries are using expensive weaponry to do that
job. Eventually, the gap between a fifty-thousand-dollar drone and a
three-million-dollar interceptor becomes important; there were reports,
this past weekend, that Israel had begun to run low on interceptors. In
other words, inexpensive ?small tech? is standing up to expensive high
tech?and, over time, the former can seem to gain a kind of advantage.

Something similar may be playing out in the energy sector. America can only
achieve its dream of ?energy dominance? for as long as the world relies on
the enormous and expensive machinery of the fossil-fuel industry: tankers,
refineries, gas-fuelled power plants. Much of this infrastructure depends
on U.S. companies?which is why Trump recently announced, with
uncharacteristic candor, that he didn?t mind the spike in the cost of
crude. ?The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far,
so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,? he wrote on Truth
Social. Of course, the word ?we? was doing a lot of work there. Big Oil
makes money, and so do the parasitic politicians that the industry
supports. The rest of us *pay* a lot of money. Gas is up nearly a buck
since the war began.

And consumers have responded. In the first two weeks of the war, there has
been a surge in the number of Americans looking to save money on energy?by
asking for quotes on home solar systems and looking up electric vehicles
online. We can expect similar trends in other countries. In India, where
many kitchens depend on increasingly scarce and costly liquefied petroleum
gas cylinders, consumers are racing to buy induction stoves. Many models
are out of stock because restaurants have snatched them up; in the early
days of the war, some Mumbai eateries shut their doors because they
couldn?t find cooking gas and others stopped selling deep-fried or
long-simmering foods because they required too much energy. Crematoria
couldn?t find gas for their fires.

During Trump?s first term, the United Kingdom pledged to get off fossil
fuels by the middle of the century, largely because of climate concerns.
The country?s Labour government
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/how-funny-is-britains-labour-government>has
stuck to this pledge. (In contrast, the Trump Administration has withdrawn
the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.) But its green-energy policies, such as
a plan to help Britons install electric heat pumps, have been under
relentless attack by the Tories, the Reform Party, and right-wing
tabloids. Nigel
Farage
<https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/britain-is-manifesting-nigel-farage-as-its-next-prime-minister>,
who is the closest that Britain has to a maga politician, has decried the
?lunacy? of building wind and solar power. One tabloid-favorite claim is
that green-energy plans would cost the U.K. nine trillion pounds. Yet the
calculation turned out to rest on faulty assumptions: it overstated the
costs of net-zero policies and ignored costs of a dirty energy system.

Since the war in the Middle East
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/23/whats-behind-trumps-new-world-disorder>
 began, a growing number of voices have been demanding that the U.K. reopen
oil fields in the North Sea. But the problem with the ?Drill, baby, drill?
argument is that gas prices are set by global markets. The U.K. is unlikely
to lower its own prices by extracting oil that it controls?and, anyway, it
would take years for proposed oil wells to have an appreciable impact.
?We?re a price taker, not a price maker,? the U.K.?s energy secretary, Ed
Miliband, recently explained
<https://bsky.app/profile/implausibleblog.bsky.social/post/3mh3yjvzg522e> on
BBC Sunday. Instead, he argued, ?We need homegrown clean power that we
control.?

Miliband was arguing that the U.K., like any nation, needs the energy
equivalent of drones: solar panels, heat pumps, E.V.s, induction cooktops.
We need the small tech that, in Miliband?s words, would let us get off the
?fossil-fuel roller coaster.? The sickening effect of that roller-coaster
ride was made clear in a new report
<https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/supplementary-analysis-of-the-seventh-carbon-budget/>
 from the Climate Change Committee, which advises the U.K. on its net-zero
goals. It showed that coping with the last big energy price shock, from
Putin?s invasion of Ukraine, cost taxpayers more than forty-one billion
pounds. If the U.K. invested a similar amount in homegrown clean energy,
the committee found, it would get much of the way toward its net-zero
goals. The best way to save Brits money?and to safeguard the country?s
independence from tyrants as diverse as Vladimir Putin
<https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-putin-views-trumps-war-in-iran>,
Trump, and the mullahs of the Middle East?is to push ahead quickly toward a
clean future.

China has already learned this lesson. As the Columbia scholars Erica Downs
and Jason Bordoff wrote
<https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/06/iran-china-green-energy-oil-gas-hormuz-solar-electricity/>
 in *Foreign Policy,* recently, China has been preparing ?for a world in
which energy security is inseparable from geopolitics?by electrifying its
economy, securing domestic sources of energy, amassing stockpiles, and
dominating clean technology supply chains.? The good news is that none of
these technologies are secrets, and we can buy them much more cheaply than
we can buy oil. And, once we have them, we?ll no longer depend on the flow
of oil through an indefensible, roughly twenty-one-mile-wide ditch.
Instead, we?ll rely on a continuous stream of photons from the sun?an
energy source that will last another five billion years. ?


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