Garbotalk: https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-hawking-humans-ride-beam-132500360.html

What do you think of Stephen Hawking’s assertions? Have you considered reaching out to him? He is quite influential.

If he suggested we answer the beacon, it would happen.

Reptiliandude: Why do you keep asking me if “I’ve” considered “reaching out to him?”

I’m NOT ALLOWED to “reach out” to anyone.

If you’re asking me what I personally think about Hawking assisting humanity in answering ANY contact from off this world, he has been succinctly clear in that regard. Or haven’t you read his opinion on such things?

Radio silence is his advice.

Garbotalk, most advanced civilizations don’t use analog radio communication in any trans-stellar capacity for more than a few hundred years at best ( if that ).

And certainly not at the jaw-dropping power ranges required for listeners on this planet to sift through the static and determine whether or not such transmissions might have intelligent origins.

To be fair, you indeed have already picked up a few unintelligible ‘whispers,’ but… your finest minds simply rationalized them away. Most men in these fields know that claiming any discoveries of extraterrestrial radio sources would ruin their careers.

The scientific process is a mean-spirited one.

The rank and file of scientific inquiry is filled with embittered individuals suck in a morass of boring repetitive tasks who have never accomplished anything great and probably never will. Thus, their sense of personal accomplishment comes from imagining themselves to be the sacred gatekeepers of the hallowed institutions of gradualism and mechanism.

Atheism and nihilism are ensconced as high doctrines among them and lend them a nearly religious form of sanctimoniousness required to keep their dogs on a proper leash.

As such they far are more interested in proving that creatures such as myself don’t exist than they are in establishing the existence of anything that doesn’t fit into the officially approved schemes of their self-absorbed aristocracy.

For example, they are not interested in establishing lunar bases to provide a preparatory means to mine Helium-3 or to preserve humanity by storing seeds and resources at one or another of the lunar poles to replenish the Earth and to rebuild society in the event of a global cataclysm.

Also, the seed bank in Norway not only has leaks from the melting permafrost seeping into its interior, but should a cataclysmic event such as that which occurred nearly 13,000 years ago cause the same type of event, the seeds would be buried under a couple of kilometers of glacial ice, which would grind the entrance into powder. Instead, they are interested in sending a costly, financially inviolable, non-sustainable mission to Mars to try and prove panspermia so they can finally close the book on biblical literalists.

Professing themselves to be wise, they have become fools.

“Let’s not focus on a self-sustainable means to insure humanity’s existence or to appeal to capitalism to industrialize space or to mine the moon or (even better) asteroids for mineral resources….”

“No, no, no… let’s waste billions of dollars on a Mars mission to prove that humans came from interstellar amino acid chains rather than versions of the Book that all the ignorant and crazy people take so goddamn literally.”

They’re blind…

Absolutely blind.

And, they’re breathtakingly ignorant of what most religious people actually believe.

They don’t even realize that the word ‘catholic’ means ‘universal’ and when the Church gave an approving nod to evolution that was pretty much the end of the religious debate amongst that branch of Christianity right there. The Pope is the final word for hundreds of millions of people.

As for protestantism, most of these infantile propeller heads are incapable of comprehending that Christian fundamentalism is primarily an American phenomenon limited in both scope and scale to primarily the Southern United States and some parts of Africa.

These politicized promoters of pop-science are of the overwhelming opinion that ANY religious institution influencing humanity’s endeavors and any form of sustainable capitalistic ventures have no place in their promotional literature.

They willingly forget that it was Columbus’ appeal to the religious sensibilities of Isabella that provided the financial resources for the explorer and merchant to attempt to circumnavigate the world.

His promise to provide missionary access to any people discovered along the way is what motivated the devout woman to sell some of her own jewels to fund his endeavors.

Such so-called wise men today would do well to consider the positive influence of the devout who provided from their own stores not only the means to fund the explorations of their world but also to fund scientific explorations out of their own hard earned resources which made established paths for them to follow into the realms of mathematics, science and reason.

One of my greatest personal treasures is a book called De Historian Piscium, “The History of Fish.”

I kept one out of several I purchased long ago to legally provide some funding for an effort which I felt was a noble cause.

For there was once a Lucasian Professor who said: “For of a certainly, if there are men on other worlds in need of a link to that which cannot comprehend the ways of creatures such as us save to take upon himself a flesh likened unto our own fragile forms…

Only to become such an one sacrificed upon an alter of wickedness laboriously crafted through their own hypocrisies…

Then certainly there would be more facets than a mere three amongst those jewels which might make up the crown of such an eternal king.”

These words are among our own archival records of the verbiage of the human race and were spoken by none other than a great mathematician and alchemist to a company of trusted fellows at his supper table inquiring as to why he rejected the concept of the Trinity.

I have written these words to the best of my memory and place my seal upon them as a truthful record of the history of the human race as yet unknown to them.

I freely liberate these words from my own personal coinage to be entered into the record of my audit of the human species before the eyes of the Consortium as well as through those by whose generous forbearance I remain a respected member.

I have done so according to the full measure of our laws and have not directly connected a name to that one from who such words have come that they may not be censured.

Let this record stand that none holding the ownership of this species might summon objections to the same.

Garbotalk: An alien visitation to scientists en mass, at say a conference, would end all argument about life outside of Earth. It would demand reevaluation of everything, science, religion, math, literature, history and more.

This quarantine designed to limit our exposure to the truth of the universe limits our potential. That we would seek to spend trillions just to answer the question, “Are we alone?” should express our deep desire not to be isolated and ignorant.

Are other upcoming worlds so isolated and ignorant, actually prevented from seeing and hearing those outside of Earth? No. It isn’t right or fair.

Then we are blamed for our ignorant scientific theories trying to explain our odd circumstance. Of course we have it wrong.

If you think we need to change our monetary system, give us incentive. An alien visitation in which trade is brought up but rejected due to our dubious system would no doubt encourage us to do better. The carrot of universal trade works wonders for bunnies.

You always return to legalese to justify actions. I’m saying one alien stepping forward and openly would change everything.

Reptiliandude: Your planet is ‘out of sync’, Garbotalk.

For God’s sakes stop reaching out for someone to stop you from drowning. It’s pathetic…

You’re in shallow water, Hon.

Just stand up on your toes and take a breath then wade to the shore.

Your species is quite capable of saving yourselves with or without the beacon. Just clean up your act.