Exactly what is wrong with our couch potato voyeuristic society. Why bother to actually explore (thus enabling the development of) space when you can just oggle it through a telescope? /sarc
Posted on 10/11/2008 12:59:49 AM PDT by LibWhacker
I prefer Stargate FTL technology i.e. Hyperspace.... That is the route to go not warp speed..
When are we going to find the planet Vulcan? It’s orbiting around Gliese ? ;-)
Your post is encouraging for many reasons. For way too long, people of our persuasion have abandoned space, and the future, to those who hold our God in contempt. See Futures for sale, a meditation on the mental changes we need to nurture in our children.
You could also argue that God has made the entire universe for us.
We were made in His image. Why would He limit us? He made the universe for a reason also. We can see it and measure it (very rudementarily at this time). He wants us to know it, to be glad by it, to celebrate it for his masterful creation that it is. There is so much yet to come, thanks be to God!
In my opinion, He made this universe for us.
You could also argue that God has made the entire universe for us.
We were made in His image. Why would He limit us? He made the universe for a reason also. We can see it and measure it (very rudementarily at this time). He wants us to know it, to be glad by it, to celebrate it for his masterful creation that it is. There is so much yet to come, thanks be to God!
In my opinion, He made this universe for us.
one thing we can be sure of, Slartibartfast is hard at work designing the fiords
I believe God is infinite, with infinite imagination. I believe Christianity ENCOURAGES a belief in other life forms on other planets, although the variation in life might be such that we would have a hard time discerning it.
C.S. Lewis’s ‘Out of the Silent Planet’ is worth reading.
...Long time....
If we find one can we just keep it a secret and just quitely leave?
Where is Slartibartfast when we need him?
I want a conservative only planet, then we can built a death star and destory the liberal planet, oh wait, that won’t be necessary, they’ll do it to themselves ...
Only if you can come up with a good cover story while you are building the immense rocket ship
FTL is hundreds of years away, and it won’t be hyperspace. It will be warp. Look up “Alcubierre”
We’ll find it as soon as we build it.
Energy and materials are plentiful, we provide the ‘intelligent design’ and work. Voila: a “Second Earth”.
Looking for one is like looking for money left laying around...
I was kind of hoping for a teleporter.
Worse still, should their be a sufficiently advanced civilization living there for us to notice, they likely have a greater space-faring capability than we do AND greater military capability.
Should we spot them first before they spot us, we had better put all of our resources into revolutionary space access and bigger badder weapons than they are likely to have. Don't want to bring a laser to a phaser fight. ;)
...what are we going to do about it?Study it. And all other systems like it. We don't have to go there to do that.
Don't want to bring a laser to a phaser fight.That's why you can count me among those who sincerely hope we do not encounter other intelligences out there for a billion years (and even that won't necessarily guarantee us a leg up on them); i.e., I hope that intelligent life in the cosmos is exceedingly rare or even non-existent, except here on Earth.
Exactly what is wrong with our couch potato voyeuristic society. Why bother to actually explore (thus enabling the development of) space when you can just oggle it through a telescope? /sarc
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