SUMMARY: A Web site in Australia is allowing users to send short text messages into outer space. People can post messages no longer than 160 characters to www.HelloFromEarth.net which then will be transmitted to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside the solar system which is "likely" to support life. It will take 20 years for the messages to reach this planet."What's interesting is not just whether there's anyone listening, but what the public will say to intelligent life on another planet," said Wilson da Silva, a spokesperson for the project. "Hello From Earth is our way of showing that science can make the impossible possible."
The messages will be transmitted from a communications complex in Canberra, Australia in cooperation with NASA and is part of Australia's National Science Week. Science Minister Kim Carr entered the first message to launch the project. He wrote, "Hello from Australia on the planet we call Earth. These messages express our people's dreams for the future. We want to share those dreams with you."
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COMMENT: It certainly appears as if the faith of Australians is as strong as the faith of Americans, that is, faith in the existence of extraterrestrials. Ever since 1984 Americans connected to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project have been listening in vain for even the slightest hint that intelligent beings exist on other planets. Now some Australians are playing the same game, except they are really hoping or even expecting to establish correspondence with unknown intelligent beings. Is the Australian Science Minister really as strong a believer as he sounds?
It is time for these believers to do their homework. Honest scientists have been pointing out the immense difficulties faced by simple living organisms on our planet trying to develop into intelligent human creatures, difficulties so great as to make such a process next to impossible. In fact, the very first step--getting life out of non-life--is a problem that appears insurmountable. In other words, if a natural miracle happened once (the evolution of intelligent beings on Earth), it is too much to expect it to have happened a second time, no matter how many Earth-life planets are speculated to be in existence. E.T. is a matter of faith, not science.
In contrast, Christian believers base their faith in the existence of extraterrestrial life on the Bible, not wild speculations. We know about the existence of another place, often described as another dimension, where departed souls, angels, and God Himself do exist. We don't need to send short text messages. We can talk to the Lord as often and as long as we wish in prayer, and He talks to us whenever we read His Holy Word. The most important message He sends to us is--"Whoever believes in the Son (Jesus) has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." (John 3:36 NIV)
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
What are climatologists Cliff Harris and Randy Mann predicting will be the weather trends during the rest of this century?Basing their predictions on the planet's historical weather cycles, they forecast a significant warm-up in the 2030s that may surpass the warmer weather earth experienced in the 1990s and early 2000s. However, they also predict, "By the end of this 21st Century, a big cool down may occur that could ultimately lead to expanding glaciers worldwide, even in the mid-latitudes. We could possibly see even a new Great Ice Age."
Source: www.longrangeweather.com
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