woods@sri-unix (10/20/82)
Come on now! How could we be so conceited as to think that this puny little
rock off in the corner of the universe has the only intelligent life? WIth
the countless billions of stars and planets out there, probability favors
eveolution of intelligent life SOMEWHERE out there. It is clearly possible for
a much more intelligent race than ourselves to exist, and still not have the
necessary technology to send out detectable signals this FAR AWAY.
~v
(Drat! I can't escape to vi!)
Oh, well my typos have to stay, I'm too lazy to type it all over again!
It may be that they are indeed trying to contact us (or any other "intelligent"
race) but we are looking for the wrong thing. As someone already pointed out,
they would hardly use radio waves to bridge interstellar space!
It just seems highly unrealistic and self-centered to think that WE are the
most intelligent life in the universe. God help the universe if we are!
Anyway, I thought Galileo (or was it Cornelius?) showed the invalidity
of the geocentric theory of the universe.
GREG (menlo70!hao!woods or hplabs!hao!woods)