Theology of Planetary Orientation

We have a theological need to believe in the light speed barrier, until it is proven with real weights let us retain a little healthy skepticism. A flat stone if thrown correctly can skim across a pond, although if not seen would from theory be very hard to explain.

The great thing about Orion is that a visit to Saturn would allow speed tests to take place. However I would not suggest telling this to the public. The theology that going faster than "a sacred beam of sunlight" is wrong is a new way of formulating our obvious and ancient tendency to make a deity out of the sun. (Greeks, Aztecs). I still feel sick when I remember as a child realizing that the world was round and that the Australian hung onto the earth upside down. You start telling people they should be looking forward to their children hanging onto a planet spinning around another sun and they are going to feel awful.

However I don't believe any alien civilisations have yet arrived here. If you consider the evolutionary nature of the bird/eagle laying eggs, each egg is laid at a different time after hatching and has to compete for food from the parent. If you allow a benevolent evolutionary God into creation of the universe, then each galaxy is similar to a nest of eggs. In our galaxy there are a number of civilisations or eggs that are at this very moment hatching into the atomic age or thereabouts.

However I suggest from this analogy there are other galaxies or "nests" with a completely different time-frame. They are far advanced in star travel. However the distance between galaxies allows each nest to evolve far enough into the age of interstellar travel, without one "advanced galaxy" pouring into and consuming the resources of another galaxy. We are probably one of the most advanced in our own galaxy although talking within a framework of 1,000 to 10,000 years we will probably be visited if we don't visit first.

Theology of Planetary Orientation continued

Intergalaxy travel versus intersolar travel reminds me of the difference between fission and fusion. Orion suggests propulsion from small fission fuel pellets, atomic bombs. I personally believe this involves physical containment in a cannon (which is a hollow tube with a pusher-plate at end of it). Hence jumping between galaxies may demand much higher engineering of the physical containment of the fusion explosion H bombs. Maybe the interstellar civilisations in galaxies more advanced than us, although travelling regularly around their own galaxy using fission containment, somehow are so accustomed to this that they forget about the larger and more dangerous attempts to contain fusion. Let's hope these galaxies stay confined by this fusion/fission paradigm. If they have been confined in their own galaxy for some time and they break out because of a technological advance into our own galaxy, they may be very inconsiderate!

Indeed the first question I would ask an alien if one ever where to arrive on our planet is: Are you from our own galaxy or another galaxy? I would be prone to run much quicker if he answers from another!