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Hi, Harry Goldstein!

Anybody who knows anything about anything at all will tell you that there is no life on other planets.

God made this one and us and it's the only one he made because he wanted our company.

When he made the rest of the universe, it was just to provide starlight for us. You can tell by looking at the night sky through a pair of binoculars. There's no place up there for people...just a lot of pretty gas clouds and some interesting stars.

What the heck do those guys at NASA think they're doing spending our tax dollars on useless projects like

• going to the moon or
• trying to find non-existent other earthlike planets and the whole silly idea of life forms on them?

If god had wanted to create more people, and animals, and fish, and insects, and things, he had several really good nearby planets that he created where he could have put them.

And let's be really clear about the dangers involved in looking for other life forms.

We have lots of good movies that tell us --make no mistake-- that if we did encounter life forms, they would attack us and wipe out all life on the earth because they want it for themselves, and eat us up, too.

Whether it's the ones with the big eyes that steal us away in the night to operate on us and insert their tiny black thingees so they can find us later, or the ones with tentacles that attack us with space vehicles , or the ones that eat us up and lay their eggs in our stomachs, they all hate us and want our world. If it wasn't for the Men In Black, they would've done it long ago.

Even if they were only bacteria, other life forms would multiply in our atmosphere and attack us with strange diseases against which we would have no protection. Would we want that?

The whole idea of this mission is ridiculous. If god had wanted us to have nearby neighbours (or even far-away ones), he would have put it in our bible.

Come to think of it, maybe he did. Where do angels come from? God must have made a place for them, too.

Where is heaven, for example. By searching for other places with life on them, we might discover Heaven, and incur God's wrath for disturbing his home. Then he might smite all of the NASA folks, just as they deserve.

You guys who like this idea and the guys at NASA had better start praying to god to fogive you if you run into heaven up there.

And what if you run into hell?

Mark

_{I dunno. It's 5:30 a.m. and I haven't got any sleep yet. Do I really need to label this as "off topic?"}

Anybody who knows anything about anything at all will tell you that there is no life on other planets. Who can say confidently that there is no life elsewhere. On what basis one can say so?

God made this one and us and it's the only one he made because he wanted our company. What privilege you have to be unique. Surprising, god selected such a bad self centric company. (Besides, what is god?)

When he made the rest of the universe, it was just to provide starlight for us. You can tell by looking at the night sky through a pair of binoculars. There's no place up there for people...just a lot of pretty gas clouds and some interesting stars. Other creature on other end looking through some bigger trinocular may be thinking same way that star light is made for him? her? it? ????

What the heck do those guys at NASA think they're doing spending our tax dollars on useless projects like

• going to the moon or
• trying to find non-existent other earth like planets and the whole silly idea of life forms on them?
• trying unsuccessfully to find existent other (not necessarily) earth like planets and possibly true idea of life form somewhere.

If god had wanted to create more people, and animals, and fish, and insects, and things, he had several really good nearby planets that he created where he could have put them. Seems god (what it is?) is sitting on the Sun, so that the planets known to self centric creature on the earth nearby.

And let's be really clear about the dangers involved in looking for other life forms. If you know that there is no life anywhere else, why to fear?

We have lots of good movies that tell us --make no mistake-- that if we did encounter life forms, they would attack us and wipe out all life on the earth because they want it for themselves, and eat us up, too. Good movies? Means you believe what they say. On the other hand (repeat) If you know that there is no life anywhere else, why to fear?

Whether it's the ones with the big eyes that steal us away in the night to operate on us and insert their tiny black thingees so they can find us later, or the ones with tentacles that attack us with space vehicles , or the ones that eat us up and lay their eggs in our stomachs, they all hate us and want our world. If it wasn't for the Men In Black, they would've done it long ago. (repeat) If you know that there is no life anywhere else, why to fear?

Even if they were only bacteria, other life forms would multiply in our atmosphere and attack us with strange diseases against which we would have no protection. Would we want that?

The whole idea of this mission is ridiculous. If god had wanted us to have nearby neighbours (or even far-away ones), he would have put it in our bible. Who wrote bible? God ?

Come to think of it, maybe he did. Where do angels come from? God must have made a place for them, too. So you believe that angels are there. Thats it. Those may be the life outside our planet.

Where is heaven, for example. By searching for other places with life on them, we might discover Heaven, and incur God's wrath for disturbing his home. Then he might smite all of the NASA folks, just as they deserve. That may be the life outside our earth (if you want to say so). And if they are god, they must be full of mercy, compassion, and goodwills. I did not understand meaning of God's wrath. Besides, if you believe gods, you need to believe that everything happens because of the will of the god. Then the discovery of extraterrestrials or gods, or heaven also is the will of the god.

You guys who like this idea and the guys at NASA had better start praying to god to forgive you if you run into heaven up there. Reaching heaven is your wish. They even NASA people may have same wish. Why not?

I can't believe that anybody would have taken that last entry seriously!

Even today when I re-read it all this time later, I roared with laughter.

C'mon gsuhas, 'fess up! Did you REALLY take it seriously, or are you having me on?????

Hi Mark

On the ountrary, no body took your post seriously, thats why no body cared to reply it except me. All others just ignored your post. Bad!

Hi, gsuhas!

Well, if nobody was supposed to take the post seriously, and in fact no one did... then that was a good thing, wasn't it?

I thank you for your reply to it, gsuhas; and though I might have more quickly understood your expression of appreciation for the humour in the post itself if you had just said you liked it, I actually did enjoy the humour in your quasi-serious response to it with a large smile.

Love ya, man. Thanks for enjoying my post and responding to it, even after all this time. Too bad more people didn't get to chime in on this entertaining topic.

Mark

Dear Mark

I also took it as humour.

But some places the humour was somewhat suttle, and one would have taken your point seriously. Thus I put other view points too.