X-Message-Number: 14442
From: "Wilson" <>
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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.

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