icepick wrote:
Hi Pen;

NASA has warned other countries away from which landing area on the moon? We landed how many times thus far? But that's just it. None were our preferred site for a permanent base. They were sites of scientific interest. I know, I read that article myself. But after reading so many stories on the more reliable news sites that turned out to be false in recent years? I don't know anymore.

However, I must take exception with that professor. To start with, he assumed that alien contact would be detrimental to religious faith, as opposed to expanding it. How narrow minded can you get?

He also completely fails to realize that some people are never up for such a major event, but I suspect that he is one of them. Ready or not, I'm certain that some extraterrestrial species will contact us the moment we build an off world base of the permanent sort. They would be stupid not to. And while I don't see them attacking us while we are planet bound, that could change completely once we have our launch issue properly resolved. So it would probably be a good idea to develop some exotic weapons before then. Just don't get carried away with them. I doubt most of them would bother us, but might that depend on our nature as well?

I wonder why people like him are convinced that it would destroy our society, simply by contacting ET? It sounds to me as though he has no faith at all in the human race.

Tim
Personally I believe that other dimensional beings....  have made themselves known to us in our ancient past.... now our brains are hardwired not to see them.... (why?)   If we could see them all, and many are hideous looking, we would go insane.  People freak out from fear of the unknown.  Whether it would harm religion I would not know.... I know it would not stop me from believing in God... but having seen one of these other dimensional beings that can project themselves to your mind.... I KNOW people would freak out if they could see them.  And they are no respecters of privacy or property.  We often feel presences around us... we like to think they are spirits but who knows what they are because we can't see them.  We see them when they want us to see them.   Our eyes can only see in certain light spectrum's, outside of that goodness knows what is there.


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~