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From: andrew@nsc.nsc.com (andrew)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: alien contact
Summary: a change in the weather
Message-ID: <10273@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 2 Apr 89 08:57:22 GMT
References: <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10245@nsc.nsc.com> <7787@pyr.gatech.EDU> <7806@pyr.gatech.EDU>
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In article <7806@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
> >-- 
> You fail to realize, I feel, that by the standards of a civilization that can
> send ships to the stars, neither we nor the Russians have any claim to being
> a space-faring civilization.

Maybe we'd change our minds about whether we are a space-faring civilisation
or not, if these foreign chaps arrived in large unfriendly numbers %-]
Incidentally, they were waiting for the discovery of kitchen fusion.
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