"Simon Laub" <sil@ccieurope.com> wrote in message
news:3f25143a$0$76080$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk...

IF WE are not alone in the Universe, why have we never

picked up signals

from an extraterrestrial

civilisation? This long-standing puzzle, known as the

Fermi paradox after

physicist Enrico Fermi,

who first posed the question, is still one of the

strongest arguments

against the existence of

intelligent aliens.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/ns-aah050703.
php

Looks like a workable method--or maybe more simply, the
interstellar standard communications format/protocols are
based on graviton or neutrino particle/wave technology, or
other ultra-advanced tech we can hardly conceive of (i.e.,
"magic.")

Makes sense if you have some nasty aliens out there. And

then poor

us little Earthlings ....

-> i.e. "Let them join us when we think they are ready".

I think the "Prime Directive" concept of Trek is highly
under rated, probably due to its sci-fi roots and its common
sense simplicity. Ditto for the various "zoo," and various
protected "preserve" hypotheses -- or, for that matter, yet
unharvested food farm/reserve ideas.  :)         ...tonyC

-Simon
silanian.tripod.com