> Judging how humans have treated each other on this > planet I suspect > that the chances of extraterrestrials using us for > some kind of plant > fertilizer or snack food is way higher than the > chances that they are > gunna give us IPhones with supercomputer powers or > the cure for > cancer. This is an excellent point.
So, Curtis, you're saying they are or they are not coming "To Serve Man"? --- curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "862 years from now, the whole of humanity might get > a loud banging on > the front door." > > Judging how humans have treated each other on this > planet I suspect > that the chances of extraterrestrials using us for > some kind of plant > fertilizer or snack food is way higher than the > chances that they are > gunna give us IPhones with supercomputer powers or > the cure for > cancer. This is an excellent point. > > > "I was told by someone whom I thought was > authoritative (at the time) > that when the Beatles sang this song to Maharishi, > Maharishi cried." > > Since John wrote it before Rishikesh but didn't > finish recording and > release it till after, I think this must be a myth. > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Duveyoung > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Lurk, > > > > It turns out that even Maharishi's synchronicity > karma has its > > controversial aspect. Some folks are pissed about > the sending of that > > Across The Universe beam to the North Star (which > won't receive the > > message for 431 years.) > > > > Here's why: > > > > Scientists who are involved with SETI (Search for > Extra-Terrestrial > > Intelligence) have a sub-group that wants to not > just listen for > > messages from space but to also SEND messages > outwards to whomever is > > listening. > > > > "But who is listening?" asks many a concerned > citizen. > > > > The METI (Messages Sent to Extra-Terrestrial > Intelligence) folks are > > unapologetic about their representing six billion > people without so > > much as a raising of hands about whether any > message at all should be > > sent. > > > > Although TV, Radio and especially Radar > waves/beams have been sent > > from Earth millions of times in the last century, > most of these > > "messages" that would alert aliens about us are > garbled and lost in > > the interstellar vast reaches filled with gas > clouds and many other > > beam-attenuating physical attributes of the > universe. Military radar > > beams are the most coherent and go the farthest > before being smushed > > about so much that they blend with the background > noise. > > > > It turns out that there has been very few beams > that could have gone > > very far and there are not that many stars within > a 200 light-year > > wide sphere that could have "caught" one of our > beams by now. So far > > then, it is probably not that big an issue given > how rare alien > > intelligence is computed to be. > > > > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation ) > > > > But opponents of METI warn that sending out > messages as we did with > > the Across The Universe song could be very > powerful and go much > > farther, because the machinery transmitting the > beam is advanced, > > powerful and coherent. > > > > At this Web site, > http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=834 , there's a > > discussion about this issue -- this thread was > created before the > > present Across The Universe event, but all the > nuances of the topic > > are nicely covered. I even chimed in on the > thread with a nice piece > > about G.O.D....but how could I not have, eh? > > > > I think this background information gives the > Across The Universe > > message much more meaning to the scientific > community in general and > > those involved with Maharishi in particular than > any newspaper > > accounting might suspect. > > > > The song was sent out, riding one of the greatest > power-beams that > > earth-science can muster, to a star that the TM > Siddhi Program has > > selected as one of its spiritual foci. It is hard > to imagine a more > > serendipitous synchronous symbol for us, for the > world, and for the > > scientific community "once they get what they've > inadvertently done." > > > > 862 years from now, the whole of humanity might > get a loud banging on > > the front door. > > > > I was told by someone whom I thought was > authoritative (at the time) > > that when the Beatles sang this song to Maharishi, > Maharishi cried. > > > > I completely believe that story even now. > > > > What hath Maharishi wrought in all our paper cups? > > > > Edg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], > "lurkernomore20002000" > > <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > Pretty cool synchronicity that "Across the > Universe" was being sent > > > out across the cosmos at the same time his > consciousness left! Great > > > music for the journey! Turn it up! > > > > > > Yes, and isn't is sychronicity that his passing > happens on an > otherwise > > > big news day, such that the headline gets bumped > off the Yahoo > main news > > > page after a short period. (or it seemed that > way) > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > === message truncated === ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
