My God Jehovah and Other Civilizations

The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature, and prevalence of life in the universe. They believe they are conducting the most profound search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in human history. They claim that they want to know our beginnings and our place among the stars. I think that they are wasting their time and money.

The problem is I think aliens are already here on Earth. SETI ignores all the sightings of machines and people that see these machines. These machines obviously don’t transmit data or voice information.

But the biggest problem is the idea of alien transmission intercepted from space. These intercepts depends on some civilizations evolved like our civilization. These transmissions must pass Earth when we are listening. So if the civilization 100,000 light years from us started transmitting in our direction 100,000 years ago, we will be lucky to pick up these transmissions now. We must be listening at the right frequency and we must know that what we are hearing is an intelligent message from aliens. But what if they don’t use radio or TV transmissions? Then we are probably out of luck.

A Soviet Russian Astronomer Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev created the Kardashev scale. This scale is a method of measuring how advanced a civilization could be. It relies on energy consumption of the whole civilization and then applies it to the universe.

The Earth humans are in Civilization Zero. That is because from a 13 billion years stand point, we just discovered fire, stone tools, and got started in the industrial revolution. We are currently playing with nuclear power. It also uses a fission power source supplying energy on another planet or on the moon. It provides for a very cheap way to get from the Earth to space. We are still in the early stages of Civilization Zero. We still use coal, natural gas, oil, and other natural resources that will soon run out.

Civilization One are people who controls the energy of an entire planet. This civilization can control the weather, can prevent earthquakes. However, a Civilization One civilization still faces danger of extinction by natural disasters such as comet impacts. These people are starting space industries and are creating space colonies throughout the entire Star System. They have started asteroid mining and mining for fuels and energy on other planets. They started their first interstellar space travel. They have a one world government on their planet.

Civilization Two has the ability to directly mine a star. This civilization will have completely explored its own star system and will have established a number of colonies in neighboring star systems.

Civilization Three can manipulate space-time and possesses almost godlike powers. It would be threatened with extinction only by the death of the universe itself. They have a cheap and convenient way to go from one end of the galaxy to the other.

Civilization Four is extra-dimensional beings but not Gods. If you ever watched Star Trek and seen the character “Q” then this is what it would be like to live in a civilization classified as four.

Civilization Five approaches or surpasses the limits of speculation based on current scientific understanding. They can make their own physical laws in this Universe.

Civilization Six has power over multiple universes, an energy power level that is technically infinite. This civilization may have gained the ability to alter physical laws across multiple universes. These civilizations can escape a dying universe, and thereby become eternal.

Civilization Seven would be Gods or deities, able to create universes at will, using them as an energy source, and a large one at that. We are talking about my God Jehovah here. This civilization is well beyond the stage of understanding of humans.