Planet trek and the search for life

America spends much money on the hunt for extra terrestrial life, and they also spend a lot of money looking for planets that can support life.

This second notion is based on the concept that where there is water, there is life, of some form or another. The real question is, to what end?

What do we do if we find life, be it in whatever for it is? It is perhaps only worth finding it, if we had any chance of communicating with it. This is quite ironic, as we have a planet that is just teaming with life, and Americans can't even communicate with much of it. For example, Americans can't communicate with fish, dogs, insects, cats, dolphins, whales, trees, plantlife (in general), birds of any kind with wings, spiders, watermelons. You get the drift.

Americans can't even communicate well with earth beings who speak other languages. Americans have a tendency to shoot first and try to communicate later. So, let's just say that should all these efforts at interstellar communications result in a race of beings coming all the way to our planet in a faster than light ship, then the likelihood is that America would be threatened, and they would try to nuke whatever it was that was trying to communicate.

The best example of this would be to take the Star Trek 4 scenerio, and shift it into our time now. How would we, be able to cope with a race of beings form of communication was destructive to the human race. America would see at as a threat and try to destroy it before it did too much damage, yet it was coming at our invitation.

Just another thought with respect to one of the basis surmises of our setting up a communications protocol with alien races. Movies would have us believe that prime numbers are the key to setting up such a protocol, yet the prime number set is based on a decimal system, which is based on the number of fingers on the human hand, so the concept of the prime number as being a UNIVERSAL standard is somewhat flawed as not even all the creatures on earth have 10 fingers. Its only human beings.

One other problem exists in the context of our location in space. We base our position in space relative to known quasars, relative to us in space. Yet the universe is dynamic in that it changes. Also our galaxy is flying through space at a high velocity, and with a speed that makes it relative to other nearby galaxies and black holes. Also the farther away from the earth they are, then in light year terms, they are also in a relatively different place in space and time to where the earth and the quasars actually are, which means that even if they could decipher where we are relative to the location of quasars, which will also be placed differently relative to where they, then given time and space travel, they would never find us, because we would have moved too.

So why does America place so much creedence in the need to find life. There is speculation of life on one of the moons of Saturn, under the ice. What do we do with it if there is. Do we expect it to talk to us? Do we expect it understand? Do we hope that it is telepathic, and that it has mates that it will talk to for us? And what do we have to say?


I think it would be fascinating to know if there is life out there, but in the meantime there are millions are starving people here on the planet Earth, who have nothing, and could do with some of the money spent on the star trekking. Even if there was life on Mars, it is not there now?? What can we gain by knowing.

I think America hopes for a short cut. The concept of finding a more intellectually advanced race that can show the human race how to get off the planet, is a dream, harboured in US movie making, yet with little sense of reality.

While I agree that the Universe is a big place, and that scientists imagine there are millions of opportunities for life, the chance of a correlation between where we are, and what we are, and finding a similar correlation to something out there, given our novelty as an "intelligent race", leaves much room for speculation and expectation, yet, everything we are and do, and our knowledge base is way too basic and primitive to allow for anything beyond speculation.

The recent tests in which particles were found to travel faster than the speed of light raises big questions about our perceived knowledge of the universe, and what are its limits, and size. The questions that relate to the mass of the universe and the black stuff, which we can't see, also raises questions about what we are?

Is there a relationship between the "dark matter" and the elusive "Higgs Boson" particle?

They are both speculative theories, and yet to be proven?

In an earlier post I made the statement that the universe is so big, and that with our telescopes we can look back in time to see the universe as it was. I raised a question that if we looked in the right direction we would see the light from our own galaxy as it was bent around the universe so that it came back to us. Would we recognise the light from out own galaxy if we did see it, and the light was 6,000 million years old?

That's all for now. Have a good day.