THE COSMOS AND US - 6

So now that we know where we came from, what exactly is out there. Many scientists believe that there must be more like us - like us meaning thinking, aware beings who express their creator as best they can.

The search still goes on and one. The SETI program, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is run out of Berkeley, California. In the words of Eric Idle of Monty Python fame:

"There’d better be intelligent life somewhere out in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger-all down here on earth."

I’m less pessimistic than that. For those who like to bet on a really long shot, the SETI-at-home project uses the screen saver on your computer to process data from the SETI program. You can use the spare time on your computer to run analysis on the data from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, helping the folks at Berkeley look for the LGM’s - Little Green Men. They probably aren’t green, but you can bet they likely won’t look much like us. A million years from now, WE won't likely look much like us!

A Trillion stars in each of Billions of Galaxies - doesn’t it just make you wonder? In the words of the first long-distance telegraph message by Samuel Morse, “What hath God wrought?”


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