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From: dgd@ukc.UUCP (D.G.Dixon)
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Subject: The Great Silence
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Date: Sun, 25-Sep-83 10:07:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 25 10:07:36 1983
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 Harping back to the question of extra-terrestrial civilisations, there
is an excellent paper by G.D. Brin entitled "The Great Silence" in vol 24
No. 3 (Sept.) of the Quarterly Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society.
The upshot of this is that deadly von Neumann probes or Ecological Holocaust
would adequately account for the lack of contacts so far.
This might have some bearing on the present discussions of interplanetary 
migations.