IMMIGRATION: Deporting 16 million illegal aliens!

While looking for my bunny slippers this morning I realized something was troubling me about this morning's "Ark" post ... that we can conceive of such futuristic scenarios as is described in this NGS article (sending the human archive to a lunar station; ditto to Mars later ... ostensibly to preserve the human data bank) ... but cannot conceive of deporting 16 million "illegal" aliens from our sovereign nation to preserve her boggles the mind.

The founders of the group Alliance to Rescue Civilization (ARC) agreed that extending the Internet from the Earth to the moon could help avert a technological dark age following "nuclear war, acts of terrorism, plague, or asteroid collisions." (Read: "Killer Asteroids: A Real But Remote Risk?" [June 19, 2003].)

But the group also advocates creating a moon-based repository of Earth's life, complete with human-staffed facilities to "preserve backups of scientific and cultural achievements and of the species important to our civilization," said ARC's Robert Shapiro, a biochemist at New York University.

"In the event of a global catastrophe, the ARC facilities will be prepared to reintroduce lost technology, art, history, crops, livestock, and, if necessary, even human beings to the Earth," Shapiro said.

We are, I am told, 250,000 miles distant from the moon; the mean average distance to the border of any foreign nation on earth is roughly 5,500 miles. A combination of buses or planes or trucks would be used to transport the deportees to their respective borders; from the beginning to the end the logistics for accomplishing this might be about five years, the cost of the project couldn't exceed 500 million dollars.

I presently do not have the mathematical or logistical means to do a comparative cost analysis per essential element at my disposal; however, based on some quick scribbles on the back of last year's tax return, I estimate NASA's project would cost somewhere between 40 to 80 times as much with zero immediate or direct benefit to American tax-payers.

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NASA'S ARK: Space giant has big plans to save man and his accomplicments!

I'm thinking it's mighty nice of these folks to be so concerned about us; truly, I am! But the other "I Am" has beat them to the punch. The National Geographic Society reports ...

The moon should be developed as a sanctuary for civilization in case of a cataclysmic cosmic impact, according to an international team of experts.

NASA already has blueprints to create a permanent lunar outpost by the 2020s.

Reminds me of Moses' trip up Mount Sinai to fetch the tables, when God showed the leader of the Hebrews His blueprints for an outpost of a slightly different kind.

But that plan should be expanded to include a way to preserve humanity's learning, culture, and technology if Earth is hit by a doomsday asteroid or comet, said Jim Burke, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

This too is mighty nice of you folks but perhaps you should read theses before you decide to save what you think are man's accomplishments.

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isaiah 64:6

[for] as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE." "THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS"; "WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS"; "THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD, DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN."

Romans 3:10-17

In this politically correct world we live in today, it's doubtful you'd even find a bible on the lunar surface once you landed; and yet it would be the only thing worth saving out of this garbage heap we call humanity.

An impact of the size that wiped out the dinosaurs hasn't happened since long before the rise of humans, he pointed out.

Yet scientists' expanding knowledge of asteroids and craters left throughout the solar system has created a consensus that Earth remains vulnerable to a civilization-crushing collision.

This calls for the creation of a space age Noah's ark, Burke said.

Those blueprints God showed Moses also included an ark in them; one design to picture the One True Ark: the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

In those last days the Lord will catch up those worthy of His salvation and be carried in His bosom safely to the other side. Baruch hashem adonai!

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