"Chuck in Minot" <no0z@earthmail.com> wrote in message
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[snippage]

They seem to me to be going about
their business, and not wanting to be disturbed or

detected and they don't

seem to want or to need to make friends with us either.

OTOH, do usually want or need to make friends with the
_insects_ in your house?  :)        ...tonyC

"sdude7" <sdude7@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Could be. But don't messages/signals simply take one hell

of a longtime to

travel through space? The chances of us listening at the

right moment in the

right part of the sky... And considering the apparent age

of the universe

and the time it appears to take for a civilisation to

evolve to a point

where it develops the technology (similar enough to ours

that we would

detect it) and then to take into account how long that

civilisation

lasts.... seems that the odds of contact are not really in

our favour. But I

still hope nonetheless. :-)

"Simon Laub" <sil@ccieurope.com> wrote in message
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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

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".

-Simon
silanian.tripod.com