stevejdufour@yahoo.com (Steve Dufour) wrote in message 
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What do you think of this idea?

http://www.unknowncountry.com/mindframe/opinion/

17-Sep-2003
  
Is Planet Earth Embedded in a Large Galactic Civilization? By Beatriz
Gato-Rivera, particle physicist and member of the Spanish Scientific
Research Council (CSIC)

The cosmologist Ken D. Olum, from Tufts University, after doing some
computations, concludes, "We should find ourselves in a large
civilization (of galactic size)�but in fact we do not."

It's also possible that the more advanced part of it does not want to 
reveal its existence, for very good reasons. Just watch the evening news.

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