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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Aliens
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 18:57:49 EST
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In article <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].848884.860312.KFL> KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch") writes:
>..........
>  It is quite mind boggling to me.  I think about all the technical
>progress that has been made in the last hundred years, or even in the
>last ten years, and try to project ahead.  I can think of all sorts of
>things that might exist in a century, but I really can't imagine what
>might be around in a thousand years, any more than the average person
>of the year 1000 could have imagined ARPAnet or even USEnet.
>  Of course it is possible that there are no other technical
>civilizations, or that they are but they always blow themselves up
>within a century, or that there is no other life, or that they are
>maintaining 'radio silence', or that...   Who can say?  I hope I live
>to find out.

   Yes.  This is my point.  Not only is it possible, but we have no way
to estimate the probability.  So it seems illogical to "expect" anything.
(Although I admit that I "expect" that there is no other intelligent life
in this universe, in a rare (for me :-)) defiance of logic).

   -- David desJardins