mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (mcewan ) (01/11/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1504200:uiucdcs:12700049:000:858 uiucdcs!mcewan Jan 10 14:32:00 1984 Previous earth-bound explorers were at least motivated by the hope that they would be able to establish some kind of reasonable two-way interchange between whatever they found and where they came from. If you believe in relativity, there is no way that two way interchange can take place on time scales shorter than years (at the most optimistic prediction). That doesn't qualify as reasonable two-way interchange. As compared to 16th century explorers who could just pick up a phone and call Europe? How about the Indians who colonized the American continents - did they have a regular mail route across that land bridge to keep in touch with the folks back home? If everyone was as unimaginative as you humans would ever have left the small area where we (evolved|were created|were placed by UFOs|whatever). Scott McEwan uiucdcs!mcewan