Alien, I mean really Alien.

[Captain Kwok]

Don't forget about Europa! There could be a nice big sea under that icy exterior. And you know what they say about water...

[Tanus]

Atrocities:

While I believe you are correct in that we may never meet another sentient species, I find that I cannot agree that it does not exist.

It is generally accepted that there are approximately 200 Billion stars in the Milky way galaxy. Furthermore, most scientists agree there are approximately 100 Billion galaxies (some suggest upwards of 125 billion). Seeing as our milky way is of average size, a pessimistic view holds that there are 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars . While the chance of life springing up in any one star system is remote, there are a huge, huge number of stars.

If you wish to believe that no life exists elsewhere, well, not much I can do to change that. You're entitled to your opinions, as am I

[Wardad]

Hmmm... FYRON only posted once.
Strange... very, very strange...

[President_Elect_Shang]

Weak argument: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992283
Good info: http://www.astro-tom.com/technical_data/alien_life.htm

As for me I feel certain that we are not alone in the universe, furthermore I am confident that there is indeed other intelligent life. We are often quick to point out the hems and haws of why we “must be alone”. I appreciate your work and papers and research Atrocities, so please do not take my next comment wrong, it is not directed at you or any other person who has undertaken such a daunting task as this one.

We are a young and technologically inferior species! We do not have the ability or the mind set to truly discover what is out there. Sure we have plenty of radio telescopes, but that is the best we can do? Yes we have projects like SETI, how much funding did they get Last fiscal year?

I feel the short fall is in the average human mindset, this is a big statement since no poll has been taken to tell one way or another. If we do not see an immediate benefit from something we usually don’t buy into it. Where is the immediate benefit in spending the needed money and time to communicate with the slug beasts of Alpha Omega? NONE! The payoff comes in the long run, the very long run.

What about our movies of aliens? Independence Day, Alien. Other than Close Encounters and ET how many “good” contact movies can you think of? How many negative? Why? Are we mostly xenophobic, I think so?

Ok, someone else can have the soap box now.

[Randallw]

I was reading Popular science yesterday, I think it was Last months copy. Anyway it says instead of the US government greeting any aliens in peace they would be treated as any animal with a possible contagious infection and handcuffed and taken to the US contagious animal lab. If the alien vessel had no noticeable exhaust then it would be treated as nuclear powered and cordoned off to stop radiation exposure.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'I told you, Private, put the handcuffs on them!'

'But, sir, which tentacles?'

And considering the very real possibility that an alien 'mothership', for lack of a better word, may be able to wipe out every Last human on earth...I really hope that that isn't there plan, or that it's only one of many contingency plans.

[ March 27, 2004, 07:03: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[PvK]

Ya, good luck with that plan... let's not let the US Customs officials talk to them, either...

PvK