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SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects
An anonymous reader writes "Today Astrobiology Magazine interviewed SETI@home Project Scientist, Dan Wertheimer, about subjects including the first detailed 'best of SETI' candidate reobservations for repeating telescope acquisition on the most promising 166 star candidates. Their policy is not to release precise sky coordinates on the best ones yet (so far a signal called SHGb11+15a), with this type of Gaussian signal shape. The candidates number some 400 million Gaussians and 5.7 billion spikes."
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Religion is always fun to debate on /. ;). That said, I will offer my extremely humble opinion. In my own experience, and correlating that with all that has been written (including the Gospels) - what Jesus was getting at is that the Kingdom of Heaven (or simply, Heaven) is right here, right now, available to you immediately. The trick is finding a way to see and experience it. If you can see that the World is a wonderful, sacred, infinitely mysterious and beautiful thing, then you have entered the Kingdom of Heaven. How do you manage to do that? You may only know what path is right for you.
As for the Heaven of when-you-die - that is an inscrutable mystery. Nobody knows what happens to your spirit when you die. This fact is an important lesson in itself. The fact that no one knows, gives our lives a distinctively uncertain feeling. I think that one of the paths to the Kingdom of Heaven is learning to live and thrive with this constant uncertainty. Really, it is about freedom. Are you going to live frightened of dying all your life, in a little locked box, or are you going to live your life, free in heart and mind?
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