X-Message-Number: 14442 From: "Wilson" <> References: <> Subject: Re: if so, where are they? Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:22:02 -0400 > Message #14436 > Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:21:24 -0400 > From: Thomas Donaldson <> > Subject: if so, where are they? > I note George Smith's comment on current theories of cosmology. > While the universe is unlikely to follow current theories, > there is one problem with the notion that the universe is > endless in the past: right now, there's a serious problem > about the existence of other intelligences. If they existed, > they could easily have colonized our solar system millions of > years before human beings evolved. So where are they? > What makes us believe that alien races would be significantly more advanced than we are? Is our solar system particularly new, in cosmological terms? There could be a hundred million alien civilizations out there, all of which are at the "tentative spaceflight" level or earlier. --Wilson. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14442