I spent the
weekend at a conference with the Raelian movement as last week’s host is a
Raelian. What is a Raelian? They look like you and me and they want to make the
world a better place through technical development that will free society from
work. They believe that we were created by people on another planet that is 25
000 years ahead of us.
Apart from meditating,
watching video clips about future technology and UFO sightings we had a lot of
fun as you can see in the picture. Competing in the Swedish national sport ”throwing
the welly boot” isn't very high-tech, but the Raelians are so peaceful they
forgot to count the scores ...
At night we went
up the ski slope (no snow yet!) to watch the sky. I was happy to see a shooting
star (my first ever!), and my host said that for him it’s not important to see an UFO; he
believes they’re out there anyway, but that the aliens have better things to do
than flying by the earth all the time.
The Raelians
believe that it will be possible for us, human beings, to create life both here
on earth and even on other planets, in a not too distant future. Perhaps I
should go and live on another planet so I don’t have to choose between Sweden
and England!
PS. Simplified life forms have already been artificially
created on earth. In 2010 a group of researchers at the J Craig Venter
Institute created a new functioning DNA-code that was introduced in a cell.
Sources:
"VENTER CREATES FIRST SYNTHETICSELF-REPLICATING BACTERIA FROM SCRATCH"
'Artificial life' breakthrough announced byscientists
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