Deep Space

Technically speaking, deep space refers to the vast empty fields of space in the universe outside of Earth's atmosphere.  It is the nothingness that lies between the atmospheres of all the celestial bodies that hang in suspended motion both inside and outside our known solar system. From an earthen perspective, space can also refer to anything outside the earth’s atmosphere that that can be viewed nicely with the Hubbell Telescope or monitored with the Very Large Array (VLA)

The VLA, located in New Mexico, USA is a part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and it is best described perhaps as an enormous ear.  Turned towards space it is searching for sounds, signals, anything that might let mankind know that there is life somewhere besides earth, somewhere out beyond in the vast crevices of deep space. The VLA project, (costing 78 million dollars,) began in 1972 with it’s purpose being to search the universe for any signal or sign that might be consider an intelligent life form.


You might be interested to know that since that time, and contrary to what is shown in movies, read about in book... after book... after book... after book written by UFO enthusiasts, and conjectured by the media, there has been no real contact with any other beings,no sign of life out there.  There has not been any discovery of any life form outside of earth.

Earth is a special place; and even  though we have swept the skies, visited planets in out solar system and beyond vicariously, we have yet, to discover other life forms or signs of extraterrestrial intelligence anywhere out there, proving that Earth is unique.

We humans are on a planet suspended, perfectly balanced in space and it’s not a dead planet either. It contains life, intelligent life at that! Here on earth we have beautiful things like animals, flowers, sunsets, and children. We are a planet that exists in calculable measurements, predictable outcomes and repeatable processes, things we call "science." And we exist here in our wonderfully marvelous balanced world of heat and cold, light and darkness, life and…death. Still and yet, in our infinitely creative, contemplative, coherent human minds we find ourselves looking ad listening into the deep darkness of space, hoping to find  intelligent life, to prove to ourselves, we were right all along.

"There is no such thing as God."