SETI 50 Years Later: Search for Intelligent Life Could Lead to Home

Back when SETI was first suggested in a Fall 1959 issue of Nature as a scientific system to find intelligent civilizations, it shouldn't have been a surprise that the Sci-Fi view of alien life would ultimately prevail. This was during a time when stories about UFO's were starting to increase, Sci-Fi movies about space travel were beginning and the launch of Sputnik into space caused equal excitement along with the dread. But it was clearly a time when we differentiated between us and them, no matter if you had to break that down into an earthly metaphor of us and the Communists. In a wider view, every thinking layperson or scientist thought that if an alien civilization existed, it'd have to be light years away from us in another galaxy.

Enter big budgets and the buildup of the same above philosophy, as big as the later and current SETI radio antennae dishes.

Well, it wasn't until the creation of the famous Drake Equation of 1961 when the fullest attention to searching for intelligent life residing in the cosmos started. In this equation, astronomer Frank Drake worked out a process of guessing how many potential civilizations could technically exist on all the stars and planets we knew of at the time. Yet no matter how ingenious this equation was, it was still based merely on personal philosophy or faith.

Science learned with Einstein that things thought to be one way ultimately end up to be something completely different when we eventually manage to find reality in the bigger picture. Despite Drake's equation making sense in theory with all other planets known then and dozens more just found recently outside our own universe during the writing of this article, evidence is miniscule that any intelligent life forms exist there. Only those who dare put a spiritual spin on science and the meaning of our universe and existence seem confident enough to give any reason why.

In the world's major religions, any direct mention of life on other planets was never made specific. For Christians, the only allusion in the bible to such a thing was through visitations to Earth by benevolent and malevolent angels that more forward-thinking people later connected to the answer behind UFO's and aliens. Yet when it came to the representation of Heaven, Christians and most other religions thought of it as residing in a different dimension or realm rather than on a planet either in or outside our universe.

What's most telling, though, is that (at least through Christianity), the biblical evidence seems to tell us Earth is the center of importance, above any other celestial body in the whole of universal creation. That doesn't necessarily mean that there couldn't have been or still is a spiritual connection to other planets--as in a physical manifestation residing on planets, exoplanets or stars.

Ultimately, such a philosophy like that could cause a big problem for those who believe in the SETI program. Scientists who still believe in the literal belief of a physical alien race residing on another planet provide the notion that the aliens are so many light years away, that communication between them and us would be the ultimate achievement of mankind...if not even alienkind.

What reaction would there be then if SETI adherents found out that the intelligent life they've been seeking out for 50 years was already visiting us here on Earth?
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With all due respect to SETI and those who believe in it, the answer to the above question is likely: Until more evidence turns up for intelligent life being here, there won't be any regard in searching for it here.

That's where personal philosophy can get turned on its ear. Nevertheless, you can't mention intelligent life being here without bringing up the sometimes laborious and fake-ridden subject of UFO's. If you've followed all the details of the UFO phenomenon over the years, you'd know plenty of fair to excellent evidence exists that they're definitely here, but no concrete evidence of what they might really be.

If you're one to follow the connections of the spiritual with science, then you may follow the track of the malevolent aliens (known to abduct people and other sinister acts) as being the rebellious Satan-following fallen angels or Nephilim from biblical lore that were thrown out of Heaven and down to Earth where they eventually interacted with human beings. Then we have the reported benevolent aliens some people encounter and who seem peaceful and more humanlike.

Whatever you personally think, video and film evidence over the decades shows intelligently-controlled flying craft here in the hundreds if not millions every single day. Special effects-free video evidence has even shown them flying in and out of bodies of water on our planet--most notably in the Gulf of Mexico.

Don't guffaw at the thought of suggesting SETI aim their radio telescopes into the Gulf.

Even then, we may not get a reply to our radio signals. It's been suggested that we just aren't using the right communication technology or that these intelligent beings want to stay undercover so they don't incite panic in the world populace. If aliens equal Nephilim/fallen angels, then the logic gets deeper in why they don't want complete disclosure of themselves. Based on compelling historical record, they need all of us to stay as we are in order to have any reason for existing.

Yes, it all comes back to Earth and the people on it being the center of importance.

This isn't to say that there aren't outposts on outer planets, if not remnants of them from eons ago on Mars or elsewhere. Yet if the still mysterious August 15, 1977 "Wow!" SETI signal ever gets translated--we shouldn't necessarily be surprised at the answer:

"Not home right now. Get back to us later when we return and when your leaders realize you all won't panic."

Source:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/seti-the-hunt-for-et-1793984.html