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FETI: Found Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.

Alien826

No religious beliefs
Not if they don't have sex.

With only a handful of exceptions, single-celled organisms reproducing exclusively by simple fission lack one feature that ultimately brings death to all single-cells that have sex, and all multicellular organisms, including human beings: senescence, the gradual, programmed aging of cells and organisms they make up, independently of events in the environment. Accidental cell death was around from the very first appearance of anything we would call life. Death of the organism through senescence ---programmed death----- makes its appearance in evolution at about the same time that sexual reproduction appears.Phd. Biologist William R. Clark, Sex and the Origins of Death, p. 62-63.

Ok, I see. but ...

Bacteria don’t have a fixed lifespan because they don’t grow old. When bacteria reproduce, they split into two equal halves, and neither can be regarded as the parent or the child. You could say that so long as a single one of its descendants survives, the original bacterium does too.


Individual bacteria can also turn themselves into spores with a tough coat to protect themselves from dry conditions. Bacterial spores have been successfully revived from 250-million-year-old salt crystals found in New Mexico in 2000.


But if we assume that the global bacteria population is stable, then it follows that one bacterium must die for each new one that is produced. Bacteria divide somewhere between once every 12 minutes and once every 24 hours. So the average lifespan of a bacterium is around 12 hours or so.



Bacteria don't grow old, but they do split into two halves to reproduce, so in a sense the original bacterium ceases to exist and two new bacteria appear.
 

John D. Brey

Well-Known Member
Ok, I see. but ...

Bacteria don’t have a fixed lifespan because they don’t grow old. When bacteria reproduce, they split into two equal halves, and neither can be regarded as the parent or the child. You could say that so long as a single one of its descendants survives, the original bacterium does too.


Individual bacteria can also turn themselves into spores with a tough coat to protect themselves from dry conditions. Bacterial spores have been successfully revived from 250-million-year-old salt crystals found in New Mexico in 2000.


But if we assume that the global bacteria population is stable, then it follows that one bacterium must die for each new one that is produced. Bacteria divide somewhere between once every 12 minutes and once every 24 hours. So the average lifespan of a bacterium is around 12 hours or so.



Bacteria don't grow old, but they do split into two halves to reproduce, so in a sense the original bacterium ceases to exist and two new bacteria appear.

The aliens in the crosshairs of this thread don't parasite bacteria cells. The fact that they (bacteria) don't age and die, and don't use selection to choose a sexual partner, means whatever evolution (replication with modification) takes place among them does so so slowly that when the sun destroys planet earth bacteria will be pretty much like they are now.

Mammals, particularly humans, are a different story. We'll be able to build our own planet, and if the Bible is correct, a new universe too, before we succumb to the ravages of the second law of thermodynamics in this universe.

That's pretty exciting for the aliens who want to piggyback us into the next universe. Unfortunately for them, as the astrophysicist Hugh Ross points out, the whole point of this current universe is the extermination of these aliens in preparation for a new universe with no more pain, death, or tears, gravity, dark matter, or sin and death, the old things will pass away when the old universe passes away.

Those with alien thoughts, ideas, ideologies, clinging to them like barnacles, will have to be baptized in the blood of Christ if they want to gain entrance into the new paradise where the end of senescence is the second law revoked such that everlasting life is the first principle of the new world order.



John
 
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Alien826

No religious beliefs
The aliens in the crosshairs of this thread don't parasite bacteria cells. The fact that they (bacteria) don't age and die, and don't use selection to choose a sexual partner, means whatever evolution (replication with modification) takes place among them does so so slowly that when the sun destroys planet earth bacteria will be pretty much like they are now.
Bacteria change all the time to adapt to their environment. New strains of diseases emerge and what about antibiotic resistant bacteria? This seems to show that sexual reproduction is not necessary for evolution to occur.
Mammals, particularly humans, are a different story. We'll be able to build our own planet, and if the Bible is correct, a new universe too, before we succumb to the ravages of the second law of thermodynamics in this universe.

That's pretty exciting for the aliens who want to piggyback us into the next universe. Unfortunately for them, as the astrophysicist Hugh Ross points out, the whole point of this current universe is the extermination of these aliens in preparation for a new universe with no more pain, death, or tears, gravity, dark matter, or sin and death, the old things will pass away when the old universe passes away.

Those with alien thoughts, ideas, ideologies, clinging to them like barnacles, will have to be baptized in the blood of Christ if they want to gain entrance into the new paradise where the end of senescence is the second law revoked such that everlasting life is the first principle of the new world order.



John
That all seems pretty far out to me. Do you have any evidence to support it? Aside from the Bible, which won't work on me, a non-believer?
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
I've read reams and reams of commentary implying that MAGA people are not even good impersonations of a human being. Which would imply that we have at least one exhibit of alien humanoids peopling the planet.

Well, no, they're definitely human beings. They're Americans, made right here in the USA, and they've been around for a long time. They weren't always called "MAGA," but what's in a name? As for the "reams and reams of commentary," that may be a reflection of how it often goes in US politics, in an effort to demonize and dehumanize political enemies and rivals. Here's an example I recall from the movie Lincoln, in which Tommy Lee Jones plays US Sen. Thaddeus Stevens:


How many other planets has the Webb telescope found better than earth? Has Webb spied naked Pamela Sue Andersons in their milky white birthday suit on pristine beaches somewhere else in the Milky Way galaxy? . . . None of the images I might spy in Playboy say they were taken on some other planet. So why wouldn't horny aliens find earth attractive? Whatda you wanna bet some scientist snuck a Penthouse on one of the rovers sent out roving space for aliens? His momma didn't raise no fool. He knows how to get alien life-forms lining up for an interstellar trip to our big blue bordello.

Well, maybe we just don't have advanced enough telescopes to get those kinds of close-up looks on alien planets. But for the same reason, we haven't had a close enough look at anything that could be identified as extraterrestrial intelligence.

So, what you seem to be saying here is that aliens can see us and our big blue bordello, but we can't see them, even to include whatever vessels they may be using to get here.

I would wonder about whatever alien species would be coming here because they have the hots for Pamela Sue Anderson or some Playboy or Penthouse model. As a human male, I can understand the attraction, but I've always kind of thought of that as an intraspecies phenomenon. That is, if they find human women attractive, does that mean that we would find their women attractive?

And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the aliens saw the daughters of men and they were hot [טבת]; so they took them wives of all which they chose.​
Genesis 6:1-2.​

If this is true, does that mean we're all descended from aliens? The thought doesn't really bother me or faze me that much, even if it's true. But are the aliens mentioned here the same alien species as those coming now to ravage some Playboy model?


The idea proffered in this thread is that the alien species found on earth is non-biological. It parasites human brain tissue without killing the human it's parasiting. The idea in this thread is that opening the Bible and looking at the written text is a means of becoming infiltrated with this alien life-form. No less a scientist than Richard Dawkins has implied such a thing, i.e., that religion is a virus or parasite that spreads from human to human, from text to human, from meme to human.

I guess I'm probably more in the category of "I want to believe," but there just doesn't seem to be anything there. I suppose anything is possible, but without much to go on, it's really just speculation and guessing, which might have its place, as long as we don't go too far overboard.
 
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