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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SETI vs. starflight
Message-ID: <497@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 20:17:11 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.497
Posted: Wed Feb 12 20:17:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 03:29:57 EST
References: <6315@utzoo.UUCP> <11783@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
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Keywords: Robert Forward
Xref: watmath net.space:5853 net.sf-lovers:12407
Summary: 

In article <11783@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> gsmith@brahms.UUCP (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>In article <6315@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>"Their" absence here is a considerable mystery, which has occasioned much
>>debate in recent years, but the "extreme cost" of interstellar travel just
>>does not suffice as an explanation.
>
>  Maybe "they" are a long way away?

Maybe "they" don't know we're here.  Maybe "they" don't care.  Maybe
"they" _are_ here, and they're not interfering because they're running
a betting pool on how long it will be before the nuclear holocaust.
There have been stranger forms of entertainment.  Actually if I were
"they," I would certainly think twice before helping as belligerent and
irresponsible a species as ours is into interstellar space...
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