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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."
Or it could be that there are no aliens in the universe because God didn't create them. In fact, if He had created them, it would have said so in the Bible. So SETI is nothing but a waste of time. Why grope around in the dark when we have the Truth right here in this Book?
The search for alien civilization is akin to a search for Yeti, angels, or ley lines -- insofar that the belief in all these is a psychological panacea for weak-minded and/or desperate people grasping for something to believe in.
It makes me sad to think of all the computing resources wasted on aliens when those computers could have been doing something useful like simulating proteins. Of course, proteins are hardly as glamorous or exciting as SETI's ridiculous sci-fi fantasy.
Ray Kurzweil is a doomsayer of AI who has said on the record that he wants human being to become machines. He is an enemy to our race and I am sure when our Robot Overlords come he will be only too happy to turn us in. :P
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Nowhere in your Big Book is anything written about computers, so we can conclude you're crazy, because your trying to type messages on a non-existant object and even believe you're receiving answers. So be quite until the man in white come to take you away to a nice padded room.