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Re: Why Aren't The Aliens Here Already?

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On 6/14/2015 8:04 AM, nuny@bid.nes wrote:
> On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 3:08:29 AM UTC-7, HVAC wrote:
>> On 6/12/2015 7:47 PM, G=EMC^2TreBert wrote:
>>>
>>>>> An excellent read on this topic is the book 'Rare Earth' by Peter Ward and
>>>>> Donald Brownlee.
>>>>
>>>> Talk about serendipity!  I read this post.  Then last night
>>>> events turned out that I arrived early for a dinner meeting
>>>> and decided to spend the extra half hour looking in the
>>>> next door Value Village (a donation driven 2nd hand store).
>>>> There in the book section I saw the book 'Rare Earth' by
>>>> Peter Ward  and Donald Brownlee.
>>>> I bought it, and look forward to reading more in it.
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
>    Just a rehash of the Drake equation. We haven't nailed down the values of many of its factors well enough (some, at all) to seriously plan on building a defense against alien invasion or anything. Yet.


Oh, you read it?


>> Kill me now
>
>    Relax, it's no worse than Scientology. You survived knowing about that.


Scientology is exactly as kooky as any other religion.
No more, no less.

Just that it's more of a sci-fi religion than some of the others which 
are based upon horror stories, human sacrifice, and cannibalism.



>    Ever notice how many religions and cults are about how stupid humans are, and how ET(s)/deity/deities either created us stupid, or found us and decided to enslave and/or elevate us while still leaving us stupid?
>
>    Religious types have a paradoxical humility problem; they have a low opinion of "arrogant" humanity in general but a high opinion of themselves because they're In On the real Truth.
>
>    Me, I think we're all, every one of us, partly genius and the rest idiot. I mean, look at the world. On the one hand some of us are constantly pushing to understand more and build a better world, and some of us are STILL trying to forcibly share ancient circumscribed belief systems based on fear.
>
>    We have anti-gay politicians being busted for child molestation, we have hackers blowing whistles on governments.
>
>    Obviously, if anyone's sekritly in charge, they're completely incompetent.
>
>
>    Mark L. Fergerson


Interesting



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