On the date of 12/18/2002 12:08:25 PM , Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.
net> spoke:
>Instead of searching cosmic static for non-existant aliens, the rc5-72
>project from http://www.distributed.net uses the same concept (hence
>the name) to use brute force to do mathematical-type things.
That's a bit presumptuous... Live undeniably exists outside our Solar
System based on mathematical probability... To say something only
happened in one place in a universe this size would be pure folly.
And it may very well be intelligent, but:
1. We might not find it since we can only see a sliver of the sky at
Arecibo... 2. We may not know what to look for since the maybe very
well be more advanced than us. We are cosmic infants as Homo Sapiens
are a young species.
And of course life outside our Solar System might very well not be as
intelligent as us...
Its a big universe and ludicrous to think we are singular and "special"
in a cosmic sense.....
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