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From: SANDER@DEC-MARLBORO.ARPA
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Subject: Why would 'they' visit us?
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 15:07:54 EDT
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From: Warren Sander <SANDER@DEC-MARLBORO.ARPA>

Seeing as we are out on one of the arms near the edge of a 'small' galaxy
we probably haven't been visited because we haven't been found. Its like
why don't people go to small towns way off the beaten track. Because the
roads either are non-existant or in need of repair. If there is a method
to FTL travel and it requires a receiver at the other end to arrive at.
It could be an airport or a port or some sort of machine, maybe even
some amount of mass to lock onto or a beacon of some sort. Maybe when
we get out there we will find out that there is a huge interstellar 
civilization but the 'road to SOL' is a bumpy one (maybe a Bob Hope XX 
Bing Crosby XX movie in 2300) and they aren't coming here till we get 
it fixed. When the first slow boat travels get out there and come back
with the beacon maybe then we will get more travelers coming here.

So it is no wonder that noone comes here after all when was the last 
time you went to some little town out in the boonies just because it 
was there? They may have good things there but it isn't worth the 
hassle to go. Maybe we would get some hearty pioneers coming here to 
settle but with the population on this planet they would look at us a 
not even want to stop.

		Warren (SANDER @ DEC-MARLBORO.ARPA)

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