To start this topic off , I had read this and would like yo

**Babegirl** · Admin Posts: 60 Join date: 2007-08-15 Age: 49

is an acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is
the science of using telescopes, radio and optical, to search the skies
for signals from alien civilizations.

The idea of SETI began in
1959 with the publication of a paper in the British journal Nature by
Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison. The paper discussed the
possibility of the existence of alien civilizations and how we might be
able to detect them. Their conclusion was that the easiest method of
detection would be radio waves.

Radio waves were chosen because
they are capable of traveling the vast distances between stars and can
be generated with reasonable amounts of power. We have been sending
radio waves out into space for more than sixty years. All of our radio,
TV, satellite, and radar signals are currently spreading out throughout
the galaxy. Perhaps they've already been detected by someone.

At
the same time as Cocconi and Morrison's paper was published a young
astronomer named Frank Drake was putting together plans for the first
search. The search, named Project Ozma, was conducted in 1960. Over a
two week period the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani were scanned for
alien signals. No signals were found but the search had begun.

In the 30 years since the initial Ozma search many others have been carried out with more sensitive
equipment, over much longer time frames, observing thousands of other stars. So far no alien signals have
been detected, but we've really only begun to scratch the surface. There are an estimated 100 billion stars in
the Milky Way galaxy alone. To complicate matters further there are millions of frequencies that a signal
could be received on. It may be that we just haven't looked in the right place at the right time yet.

A
human being's desire to learn more about himself, and the world around
him begs an answer to the question, "Are we alone?" This
inquisitiveness is strong
enough to make a man sit alone for hours
in the early morning hours with headphones on, monitor in front of him,
waiting...watching for that one intelligent response
to his question, "Is anybody listening?"

If
that contact comes, what form will it be in? What will they say to us?
Some have said we are asking for our own doom by looking for other
intelligent civilizations.
Some say that another more intelligent
race than ours would advance our technology by light years, cure our
illnesses, bring peace to our planet. What would happen if contact
occurs? Join in and give us your views here.

Eklectic · Admin Posts: 1 Join date: 2007-08-15

I think that the universe is full of beings. There are "good" ones and "bad" ones. Just as we have here on this planet!

So who is going to get here first?
Who are they going to meet?
It sure would be interesting to speculate back and forth and see different scenarios.

As well some would say that they are ALREADY HERE!!

**Babegirl** · Admin Posts: 60 Join date: 2007-08-15 Age: 49

Sooo, What do you think about this that was written:
The Bible says nothing to indicate that God created life anywhere
but Earth. But it does not explicitly deny it. Some have speculated
that God’s omnipotence and glory might be expressed by many planets
with life. However, Scripture strongly implies that no intelligent life
exists elsewhere, and the long-running Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, or SETI, projects have failed to refute this. ... The
second person of the holy trinity incarnated on Earth alone, took on
human nature, died for the sins of those with whom He has the
kinsman-redeemer relationship, then ascended to the right hand of God
the Father. He did not take on Vulcan or Klingon nature, and He will
have only one bride — the church — for all eternity. It would therefore
seem hard to reconcile intelligent life on other worlds with the
doctrine of the incarnation.

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But that only depends on if you are a Secularly religious believer of that doctrine. Personally I do not believe in books written by mankind for mankind about what a god wants or doesn't want mankind to do. I'll wait for one of the Gods to tell me them self.

**Babegirl** · Admin Posts: 60 Join date: 2007-08-15 Age: 49

My sister, we think so much a like.
silent

do speak so loud, the wrong people might hear you. hehe