The current scramble on water and amino acids includes speculation that Earth's water is older than the Earth and 'comet guns' that have shown comet impact creates the precursor chemicals. I guess the read tells us not much is new in this area, a typical product of literature review. There's a longer example here - http://www.dickhoutman.nl/mediatheek/files/stef_aupers__dick_houtman_religions_of_modernity_2010.pdf
'Dickhoutman' gave me a slight giggle! There's even a journal called 'Holy Sci-fi: Science Fiction and Religion' considering such as religious robots. Bits of science fiction turn to science fact - our current rocket and space > technology thanks to Nazi war technology. Anything much beyond the solar > system hasn't. On Facil's last point, I go back to my ants. They > 'invented' slavery long before we humans and there seems something > inevitably biological about competitive advantage. Dung beetles navigate > in relation to the Milky Way and some creatures by more distant stars. > Physicists sometimes think quantum mechanics is a cosmic code and it is > possible religion and science fiction are 'early interpretations' of what > we can make material reality. If "dark" exists we may start to perceive it. Another haunting image Facil. On Saturday, 18 October 2014 05:26:08 UTC+1, facilitator wrote: > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QdKf5XfRsSE/VEHruxbgaWI/AAAAAAAAAEM/_vqki-MbbVg/s1600/final%2Bboots%2B001.jpg> > Interesting read. > > I like to reverse engineer things in order to get a foundation under my > frail belief system. In this regard I think there might be some plausible > explanations for the lack of Alien contact. > > 1. We are alone in the universe. An anomalous evolutionary copulation. An > error. A mistake. We find ourselves at the very top of the food chain > that we are ill prepared to assume responsibility for. Somehow found the > only "Sweet spot" in the galaxy. > > 2. We are under quarantine by a plurality of alien life that find us too > dangerous to spread across the galaxy. This might be indefinite or eternal > damnation. A rise in our own venturing inside our solar system seem to > produce an uptick in "sightings". > > 3. We are the aliens we are looking for and we have already settled here. > (Panspermia). Many drawings and folklore tales of superior(?) beings > visiting this planet. Even the Bible is ripe with strange creatures (All > with gift of flight) and designs of things that make no sense to the > writers at the time. Ezekiels Gyroscopic wheel. > > 1a) I think the "alone in the universe" terrifies even the most > ardent scientist/atheist. Unfathomable…there must be other life. A > devotion to this "Hope" borders on religious fanaticism. It has been > stated: We don't know but there must be other life forms. Like children > seeing the Virgin Mary (How she stayed a virgin after having other children > with Joseph still baffles me.) Scientists scramble to see water and amino > acids everywhere. > > 2a) Being under quarantine is debilitating. It means we can strive > to reach the stars but it will be in vain. Like the tower of babel when > men tried to reach heaven. > I think this also to be egregious and unfair because it guaranties that > life exists elsewhere. This is the unrequited love of Earth toward the > galaxy. > > 3a) Not so far fetched is the idea that we are us. Or we are them. > After all this seems as a good a place as any to settle. (Or to be > placed). We ourselves seem to prefer, in the beginning, to be content, to > send people to the moon before robots. Which is really a nonsensical idea. > > My good friend Neil provided an interesting read which I would like to > address in this way. Science fiction of the past always makes its way into > science fact. Why is this? Are these ideas already part of our Instinct? > Are these vain imaginations or predetermined programs? > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
