RE: The Human race: A sci-fi story
July 23, 2017 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2017 at 12:34 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(July 23, 2017 at 11:19 am)chimp3 Wrote: I am wary of claims that make space travel appear routine.
What I kind of find bizarre is that it is usually said that distances between stars are to wide for anyone to travel to the point that between species contact is impossible and yet some and same prominent figures from science are kind of constantly warning us that we should not send signals into space because we don't know who they are and might kill us all for resources like once Christians did to Mesoamericans.
So in one sentence they are telling us it's impossible for anyone to travel between stars and for them to come there, while in other sentence they might come if we signal them.
Like youtube channel Greg and Mitch recently reminded us of the alien scare (in video) of how Stephen Hawking said we should not send signals and Elon Musk said it should be a decision for all humanity.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
