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To: PatrickHenry
Yes...I am aware of the Fermi Paradox. I thought I would reiterate it and stir things up (I must humbly admit I thought of it myself several years ago before I knew of the eponymous paradox). I believe we are alone.

Do you?

10 posted on 07/28/2005 5:52:53 PM PDT by Pharmboy (There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
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To: Pharmboy
I believe we are alone. Do you?

I assume you're speaking of intelligent life elsewhere. At the moment, yes, we're alone -- by which I mean only that we've not been contacted. But it's difficult to conclude that we're the only intelligent life in existence. Contact is possible, via signals. Actual interstellar travel is a whole different topic.

11 posted on 07/28/2005 6:01:44 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: Pharmboy; PatrickHenry; Physicist; longshadow
I believe we are alone.

Belief is the wrong word. We have one data point for life arising in this universe, us. So if life arose here, it could elsewhere. So I don't believe, I suspect given just how damn big this place really is.

50 posted on 07/30/2005 8:48:52 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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