[CoLoCo] (Off-Topic) Proof of Alien Life to be shown in Denver Friday.

[Paul Schwartz]

Amen to that!

I think that the lack of known visitors could indicate that it is likely that most sufficiently advanced life destroys itself before reaching the level where it is smart enough to resist that temptation.

Au revoir humanity.

Paul


----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:51:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] (Off-Topic) Proof of Alien Life to be shown in Denver Friday.

You wouldn't be a fan of Erich von Daniken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken would you? I have read some of his stuff and found it interesting but it's too much pseudo-science. I'm sure there is or has been life elsewhere in the universe. It's too big and too old to have never spawned life anywhere but just this one little planet. However, as much as I would like to believe in extra-terrestrial life visiting Earth the odds are not promising. The universe is HUGE and roughly 14 billion years old. Humans have been of an interesting technological level for less than 10,000 years (this would encompass the Mayans, Egyptians, etc.). The probability that intelligent and advanced extraterrestrial life has existed or does exist at the same brief moment in time as us and is close enough to feasibly visit us and chooses to keep it secret is just too infinitesimally small to put any faith in.

It's all very interesting to contemplate, and I would personally love to see/meet/find extraterrestrial life, but any rational consideration of the possibility is quite deflating.


-- 
Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
----
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 


      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-co/attachments/20080529/52751d5b/attachment.htm