AND THEY ARE COMING BACK TO CHECK THIS BIG PETRI DISH.
Posted on 05/22/2014 11:55:42 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Aliens almost definitely exist.
At least, that's what two astronomers told Congress this week, as they appealed for continued funding to research life beyond Earth.
According to ABC News, Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday that the possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is "close to 100 percent."
"In the last 50 years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy," said Werthimer in his written testimony, adding: "The possibility that life has arisen elsewhere, and perhaps evolved intelligence, is plausible and warrants scientific inquiry."
Werthimer's colleague Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, also told Congress that he believes our chances of finding extraterrestrial life are high.
“The chances of finding it I think are good and if that happens it will happen in the next 20 years depending on the financing,” Shostak told the committee.
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AND THEY ARE COMING BACK TO CHECK THIS BIG PETRI DISH.
I don’t believe in extraterrestrials. :)
But do they believe in you?
I don’t know what that means.
I think we should explore the stars, goodness knows I’d love to escape from this whacked out planet.
“maybe there ARE out there, but the real question is do we really want them to know that WE are HERE? a whole planet of potential slaves/food ripe for the taking?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI
Active SETI/METI has been decided for us, I guess it was actually a huge controversy a few years ago. David Brin and others actually resigned from the SETI board over the nondebated decision to start tight beaming messages.
Freegards
I believe that God created life on this planet alone. Unfortunately, this planet is presently in a very sorry state.
I only need 3 reference points to answer your questions.
The creation and fall of Adam.
God’s wrath with the flood and sparing Noah.
Christ’s sacrifice for the salvation of mankind.
Interesting comment. Then you are implying that God MAY have created "another" man but not in OUR image which is HIS image but rather another image that may not actually be HIS original image that WE were supposedly created in.........
This religion stuff is all too confusing to me..............
And I'm not trying to be a SA, just searching for answers.
OH yeah, we're out here alright... 
Undocumented space humanoids is the correct name.
Don’t care. Keep our eyes on the 2014 prize!
He might have used the same image there too. Or, “image” may not mean what we think. God is incorporeal, after-all. So, what would “image” mean to Him?
The universe an astonishingly large place. Inconceivably large. It would seem a waste of space to use only one tiny corner and to wait until the universe had been around for an estimated 15 billion years. Then, our planet is supposed to be 5 billion. Our race, in various guises, images, if you will, has been around five million years or so. Christianity, western civilization, has been around 2,000 years. An example used in “A Short History of Nearly Everything” says that if you took your hands and extended them away from your body and said that length represented the entire history of the Earth; most of what we’d call complex life would occupy just the space on one hand and of that humanity would be only the tip of your longest fingernail.
That’s a lot of space (volume) and time to account for. And, all the other countless trillions of worlds are lifeless? I’d say God had more in mind than just us.
Must be budget time again.
EXACTLY ... his "image" might be referring to something other than the corporeal. I don't think his "image" refers to that of a hairless ape.
Oh and BTW by definition "God" IS an extra-terrestrial
“None are as “advanced” as humans? That would mean we’re the smartest ones in the universe.”
Or it could simply mean we’re not smart enough to be worth visting. For instance, we don’t take very many bus trips to go visit ants.
Email would be difficult for them because we haven't assigned internet addresses to any planets outside of our solar system yet. IF IPv6 is implemented sometime with the next few hundred years, we should have plenty to spare for them unless the idiots in charge here allocate the addresses in a really inefficient way. (they are already in those few places that have actually turned up IPv6).
As for them not being more advanced than us humans, have you looked around lately. We have Obama in the white House. He was elected to that office twice. Any aliens observing us could easily come to the conclusion that we're too dumb to live, and that we'll never get off this rock without their help, and they certainly wouldn't want anyone who from our planet infesting theirs with our stupidity.
IMI, we're being kept in isolation until we prove we're up to not being a burden on the universe at large.
HA! If it ain't in this solar system, it is a very, very long way.
The coolest program I have ever seen is called "celestia". It is basically a universe simulator. (Available for free download for Mac, Linux, and Windows). You can 'travel' to all the planets in the solar system at just about any speed you like. If you're really bored you can make a tour of he 9 planets while limiting yourself to 'only' the speed of light. It takes a long time getting anywhere outside of the orbit of Mars. Then start thinking about going to other stars. I actually made a journey to Bernard's star which is in the solar neighborhood (6 light years away) while travelling at 1AU/sec. That's approximately a hundred million miles a second. I'll tell you this, even if you have a scooter than can travel at 505 light-seconds per second that it will take you more than 3 days to get there. (Seems like I might have made a mistake in my calculations. I'm thinking it takes longer than that) Try it yourself and find out!
The Celestia Motherlode (living proof that some geeks have way too much time on their hands)
greatest fight scene of all times
Evolution and Creationism are in no way mutually exclusive. God makes things work the way that God wants things to work. We understand, in my humble estimation, less than 0.00001% of just the core knowledge of how the universe (or universes) work. We just don’t know the details, and the current capacity of our finite brains might not be capable of understanding more than a fraction of what there is to know.
On the other hand, the most important things, like love, charity, forgiveness, altruism, and God’s hand in all of these are knowable to us, and to a child. That’s really all that really matters to get through life and make a contribution.
Gravy train indeed!
We have a bunch of aliens next door. :-)
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