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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."
I take shelter in the shards of an abandoned house. It's comforting to be in darkness.. like the feel of cold dew-covered grass brushing against your feet as you step through a field on a sticky morning.. or the piercing pain of a thorn ripping through your flesh reminding you that you are still alive. It's a feeling that grows from deep inside.. and sometimes it wells up until a point where I feel like smiling. But I can't smile when I am alone, only when I'm with you. Only for you do I smile. When you are gone I carry it in my pocket with my knife.
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I FOUND EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE ON MY YODA DOLL ON TEH SPOKE!!!!11
Oh, wait. It was just a shit stain. Nevermind.
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Fuck me. I did it. I stole the gold. I tear the pants off of kings! I admit it. I'm worthless. I'm a thief. Rape me. It's true. I took the gems. I shot Kennedy. Jail me.
It's called faith, pal. Something you obviously lack. May Jesus have mercy on your soul.
How I can get into the Beta test for their new BOINC program?
Read the Bible. Jesus explicitely says that we are saved through faith, not works. You can do all the charitible things in the world and still get tossed into the flames of hell if you do not submit to Almighty God. Most slashdotters are going to hell.
Why can't we have a +1 Master troll mod? I mean, DAMN that's good.
LOLOL. I got moderated "-1 Overrated" for pointing out that goatse is not pretty :) ROFLAMAO!
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
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?
This is getting OT really quick.
Anyway... no. Most people seem to agree that you have to repent if you want to be saved: that is, baby-killers can go to heaven, sure, but only if they're sorry. And the conventional view is that God is unlikely to be convinced you're sorry if you, eg, fail to hand yourself in to the police and accept whatever punishment your society demands for your crimes.
So, no, Christianity - as conventionally taught - isn't a "get out of hell free card" that lets its followers be as evil as they like. I'm sure there are people who think it is, but some people will believe anything.
ah yes, the copyright gnomes.... ...PROFIT!
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
"Some people will believe anything"
Wow...that is exactly what I feel about people who believe in a a god/gods/fairies.
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