Are these 2 news items related? Which fingers?

Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

Vatican hosts meeting on extraterrestrials

via Fark

 

Slashdot | After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/23/013255
Oh no... here we go, behaving like teenagers again, and Text-spamming the neighbours

What was that Squeeze track called, again?

http://www.telegram.com/article/20091121/NEWS/911210343/1101
Via Fark
{Not so smart, though}

MonkeyFilter | City Bus Simulator 2010

http://monkeyfilter.com/link.php/17035
Pass me my anorak

3D scanning with a plain webcam - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/3d-scanning-with-a-p.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Hypothetical Astronomy | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/86844/Hypothetical-Astronomy

The Great Gig In The Sky | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/86752/The-Great-Gig-In-The-Sky