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To: Physicist
'Cuz the trip is really, really, really, really long.

And why can't they make ship supporting numerous generations on the way over?

And, even if they stayed put, there should still be evidence. Radio, ect. If intelligent life were as common as some people think, we'd know by now.

70 posted on 12/17/2002 7:26:40 PM PST by A.J.Armitage
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To: A.J.Armitage; RadioAstronomer
And why can't they make ship supporting numerous generations on the way over?

Because they don't know how to power such an object for that long, can't guarantee a minimum reliability over that long a haul, and can't afford to build it in the first place.

And, even if they stayed put, there should still be evidence. Radio, ect.

We've barely begun to listen. RadioAstronomer can give you some hard numbers on how many star systems we've checked thoroughly for radio transmissions.

If intelligent life were as common as some people think, we'd know by now.

If we'd found it by now, it would mean that the galaxy is bursting at the seams with civilizations.

72 posted on 12/17/2002 7:34:38 PM PST by Physicist
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To: A.J.Armitage
And, even if they stayed put, there should still be evidence. Radio, ect. If intelligent life were as common as some people think, we'd know by now.

oh, there's lots of evidence...videos from different sources of the same event, records in sumerian texts, eyewitness accounts, removal of foreign matter, which cannot be identified, from those who claim to be abducted, and so on, and on, for over 5,000 years.

When you have huge ego assets tied up in belief systems, any threat which exists to that belief system, no matter how valid, will be discounted.

I know: ALL those people are making it up, all the videos are fake, and everyone who suffers ridicule by reporting these things do it for the glorious reward of insults and denigration by others.

185 posted on 12/18/2002 3:37:36 PM PST by galt-jw
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To: A.J.Armitage
Have always thought that perspective . . .

That we'd know by now . . . etc. . .

HAD TO HAVE a LOT of built-in ASSUMPTIONS,

smug, tidy little boxes . . .

which could easily be very wide of the mark

of reality created by an AWESOME GOD well beyond our boundaries and our concepts of boundaries.
400 posted on 12/21/2002 10:09:08 PM PST by Quix
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