---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Salyavin, If these advanced civilizations used panspermia for propagating themselves, then it appears that they weren't able to find ways of traveling at the speed of light or even at superluminal velocity. There's a pretty good reason for that. To accelerate one particle to light speed would take the entire rest of the universe as fuel, and mass being infinite at light speed you wouldn't quite make it even if you used the particle itself. We can forget about moving that fast and blame Einstein for spoiling our fun... The Srimad Bhagatam mentioned of rishis who were able to travel at various locations in the universe. For example, Narada was able to travel the universe apparently through his consciousness alone. It would appear that he was able to arrive at those locations instantaneously. I suspect these stories are allegorical rather than historical facts, maybe to the daydreaming soul of the iron age mystic these journeys symbolised ultimate achievement? Or were a way of telling tales about the trials of life but at a distance, like the Brothers Grimm. The most credence I'll give it is that perhaps there's a lucid dreaming state that we can enter that really makes us think these places we go to in our minds are real. That'd be cool and would get me on a course if it was offered. As a sidelight, there is an Indian guru by the name of Dr. Pillai who currently teaches his students how to turn themselves into light. I'm sure their wallets will be emptied at an impressive speed even if nothing else happens. If that is true, they could presumably travel to other worlds at the speed of light. But that would also mean that they would be limited to the speed of light. As such, by using the ideas of relativity, it may take them thousands of years to travel at the speed of light to another galaxy. But for the traveler, the trip would seem to be instantaneous, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Human beings could be the result of such extra-terrestrial propagation system. Only if they did all life on Earth because DNA from all species here is completely interrelated, on a cellular level life here is identical apart from how genes have radiated from their starting point. Sending us here and faking the genome so it looked like we evolved from common ancestors with other apes would be an engineering feat beyond imagining! I'm all for using that method to colonise space though. Be cool if there was a way of freezing DNA of people and also resurrecting their memories and personality when you grow them at their destination, it'd mean we could all travel to the stars one day. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : Interesting article. Another possibility that could happen is that super-intelligent robots will be sent to Mars to terra-form the planet. After it's done, humans can move in to live in an earthlike environment. Or, the same super-intelligent robots can be sent to the nearest earth-like planets outside our solar system. They will ride in space rockets that travel in conventional speeds. After thousands of years and upon arrival at their destinations, the robots will grow humans on artificial wombs from sperms and eggs stored in suspended animation. The regrown humans will then live and repopulate the new earth completely independent from the Old Earth. Come to think of it, earlier advanced civilizations in the universe may have done a similar mode of propagating itself through panspermia. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Expert says 're-engineering our children’ will lead to the creation of a new species http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3405312/Could-humanity-s-century-Expert-says-engineering-children-lead-creation-new-species.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3405312/Could-humanity-s-century-Expert-says-engineering-children-lead-creation-new-species.html I think they are going down a wrong track and are limited by their ignorance. And techniques for longevity have been around for centuries. It's a part of Ayurveda.
