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To: SunkenCiv
Some years ago I read or heard a *scientist's statment that, "other civilizations may be advanced over us, as we are over the earthworm.."

*It may have been Sagen or Friedman?

32 posted on 03/12/2009 2:19:39 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

It’s familiar — possibly a *character* in a sci-fi novel, but I haven’t read that many; could be something said by J. Allen Hynek, who was more of a scientist than many who have claimed to be.


33 posted on 03/12/2009 5:20:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

It sounds more like Arthur C. Clarke?


34 posted on 03/12/2009 5:30:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

>>> Some years ago I read or heard a *scientist’s statment that, “other civilizations may be advanced over us, as we are over the earthworm..” <<<

What? Earthworm civilizations? The little buggers are civilized now, are they? Why, bless their little aortic arches!


36 posted on 03/12/2009 5:44:24 PM PDT by Poe White Trash
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