In news:ztq2deauttpc$.dlg@colin-jones.co.uk,
Ponder <cjspambuffer@yahoo.co.uk> blithered:

Hiya Anthony Ayiomamitis.

In <news:d0cl36$1gt$2@usenet.otenet.gr> you wrote:

Call me a cynic but it is ironic how a group of individuals (and a
society in general) supposedly sufficiently advanced to pursue the
possibility of existence of life elsewhere in the universe has so
many problems with so trivial a source?!

 I can't remember who it was that once said the best evidence we have
for extraterrestrial intelligence is the fact they haven't tried to
contact us yet ;)

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(Apologies to Kelvin & Hobbes copyright holder)

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