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| Personal background |
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I am Axelay.
I love Melbell
I run a UO server for fun.
I love God.
I do not care about E.T.
I run seti@home simply because I have hardware to spare, and I like to help out.
-Axelay |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It is very likely that there is other life in the universe. I would never be so ignorant as to dismiss the matter. I will attempt to convey to you my feelings on the matter.
God made reference to the "swarms of locusts" in the Bible. That is just about the only thing I have found that I think could be a reference to extraterrestrial beings. However, it could just as likely be a literal reference to locusts. In either case, God has provided us with all of the answers we will ever need in this life in the Bible. The fact that he did not include any information about alien life tells me all I need to know about it. If it exists, then it isn't anything that I will ever have to worry about dealing with.
Having said that, if E.T. landed today, I would know that God would not want us to treat them any differently than we would treat anyone else. They would be our Brothers and Sisters (assuming such distinctions existed) in Christ just as everyone else on this planet is.
The benefits to the discovery would be that the people of the earth would undergo a dramatic paradigm shift. Such a thing could do wonders to revive people to Christ.
The dangers of the discovery would be that it would make it that much easier for people to become distracted from serving God's will. Many would likely try to turn the discovery into a topic for arguments against following God's will and many would likely be lead astray.
I do not think we should bother attempting to transmit a beacon for other lifeforms to find us. Even if such a thing did attract someone, who's to say we would enjoy what happens when they showed up? Besides, transmitting a beacon would probably only result in some group of people on an alien planet picking up the transmission on one of their many radio telescopes, and then dismissing it as an anomoly and going back to their "search". [Irony]
I run SETI@home because I just like the fact that my computer is getting a workout, and I like the fact that I am helping people out, it |
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