kwmc@hou5d.UUCP (06/27/83)
I would like to ask for people's thoughts on the plausibility of the existence of extra-terestrial UFOs (i.e. not military projects etc ) and on the probability of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe. I heard of a theory once which stated that extra terestrial UFOs were not likely to appear more than once every 10,000 years or so, based on number of interstellar capable civilizations, number of stars they would have to visit to stumble over us, number of surveys they did each year etc etc. Can someone give a more detailed reference to this theory. Also, In determining the probability of intelligent life on other planets, On what statistical sample do people base their arguments. Seems to me we have a sample of 1 (earth) and this makes it invalid to talk of the probability of a planet having life as 1 in a billion, or 1 in a billion billion. Comments please ! Ken Cochran hou5d!kwmc
WILKINS@SRI-AI.ARPA (07/11/83)
From: Wilkins <WILKINS@SRI-AI.ARPA> The phrase "extra-terrestrial UFO's" is a misnomer. If we know where they're from, they're not UFO's. -Jack Applin IV Knowing something does not come from the earth hardly qualifies as knowing where it's from. The galaxy minus earth is still quite a large set. David -------
sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) (02/21/85)
Does anyone have more information than this about the Betty & Barney Hill
UFO encounter, or about alien visitations? or the paranormal equivalents?
TRADE Routes:
Zeta I Reticuli
Zeta II Reticuli
Alpha Mensae
* Sol
82 Eridani
Tau Ceti
Gliese 86
EXPEDITIONARY Routes:
Gliese 59
Tau 1 Eridani
Gliese 67
54 Piscium
107 Piscium
PROBABLE INTELLIGENT LIFE:
Kappa Fornacis
Gliese 95
Gliese 86.1
The above is the list of identifiable solar systems frequented by various
aliens according to a map drawn by Betty Hill under hypnosis in recalling
her and her husband Barney's encounter with a UFO near the Canadian border.
It includes stars which at the time of the encounter weren't on existing
star catalogs, but which were added by the time of her hypnotic recall of
the star chart she had seen inside the UFO in which she and her husband
were examined.
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{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunnygwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (02/23/85)
I see "sol" is not listed under "PROBABLE INTELLIGENT LIFE".