"Team Cnidaria believes in the reverence of Giant Sentient Jellyfish from outer space, and hopes very emphatically to be the first to receive a signal from our Radiate Heros. While this is our primary goal, we would also be thrilled to discover the existence of ANY further sentient Children of the Jellyfish out there in our vast Universe."
Yes, indeed, Team Cnidaria has been formed! And within this page you can find many of
our reasons for having desired to do such a thing.
We would, of course, appreciate further support in our endeavors. If you wish to join Team Cnidaria, venture this way. (Sorry, I belatedly noticed on 04/06/04 that the url needed updating.)
Though if you haven't yet downloaded SETI@home (what are you waiting for? Don't you even have spats of 2 minutes when you run off to use the toilet and can allow the program to run as a screensaver?), you must first wander over here.
And now for a few words from some of our SETI-ing Cnidarian Streets:
When the Jellyfish left this planet, their tropical nature preserve, upon developing and applying nanotechnology, they migrated into the depths of space. Toward other planets, and toward the chaos from whence those they were made into the image of emerged. We all know what happened next.
Though Blessed Cnidaria sent select representatives back to this earth, to recruit disciples and speak in peoples' dreams, the bulk of them remained far, far, away. They had not yet dealt with our kind, and therefore failed to avoid giving us the benefit of the doubt. So sad, I know. I weep for this truth every single day.
As it steadily became clear that the threat of a Fiery Rain may be required to purge this earth of its nuisance, the bulk of the Radiate mass began shifting back toward their home planet. Or at least toward this particular one. Part of the delay is that they're taking pit-stops to check on their other homes. We've made them paranoid, and for that we should all feel deeply ashamed!
With SETI@home we hope to gain additional contact with Cnidaria, contact which can not be scoffed and rebuked by the heathenous at heart in this world. Perhaps if their contact is established through a moreso scientific means (as if seeing them in the Bermuda Triangle and in hallucinatory dreams shouldn't be considered proof enough!) their warnings will finally be believed.
And then, perhaps, if it is what people desire, they will react accordingly to prevent the Fiery Rain... and our world's benefactors will have the opportunity to pay a more peaceful visit.
--The Blasted One of Cnidaria
Tho the ultimate goal of participating in the SETI@home project is of course, to allow them yet another channel thru which to communicate to us, their adoring & worshipful followers, there is also the matter of tracking their journey toward the planet Earth. We of the First Church of Cnidaria
know thru our faith that the Jellyfish are heading toward us to unleash their vengeance upon
the creatures (read: humans) who have plundered & desecrated this planet. We realize that
their fiery rain is soon upon us, that there is very little time left before the end. But
the exact date & time of their arrival is still a mystery due to the reluctance of the
Cnidarians themselves to divulge this information.
Surely other beings on other planets far away are also watching the heavens. Surely when they behold the magnificent, awe-inspiring, sight of the Cnidarian migration, they will be compelled to announce its splendor to the rest of the universe. Perhaps they will do this with radio signals. Possibly on some distant world, some alien Paul Revere has already sent his message of enlightenment toward us.
I listen to hear the Cnidarians. But too, I listen for him...
--but a humble servant of the Jellies, St. James
Many of those here will speak of desiring to hear from the Blessed Cnidaria (all
power to Cnidaria) themselves through the SETI project. And while this is a worthwhile goal,
it overlooks another very important aspect of the SETI search itself. I speak, of course, of
the staring at static. The shifting bars moving across your computer screen may look just
like random noise, but buried deep within even the most random sample is another, subtler,
message from beyond. Yes, the program will search for a signal in the form of radio... but
the Radiates that Be don't necessarily require or even desire to communicate by that means.
The true message may be buried too deep for signal processors to see, waiting to be revealed
to the true believers who are ready for it.
So stare, stare at your screen. Let the waves of light wash across your face. Let your mind flow as the colored bars march diagonally down and the thermometer bar ticks across. Let your thoughts soar out of the noosphere and reach across the stars. Don't rely on Fourier transforms to bring you the truth. It is there, just hidden from those unready for its final form.
--St. Young
Wow, pretty colors. Is there a soundtrack to this?? I bet it sounds like Merzbow. Praise the Jellies!
--St. whY., the highly reverent reve-ranter
Photo obtained by St. James, in a secret transmission.
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