Re: SETI and The Fermi Paradox

Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:

I, personally, think life is terminally self-destructing as soon
as the highest life form discovers how to make weapons the
planet cannot recover from. �We're very close to the terminus
for this planet, here in 2009, and will render it uninhabitable
quite soon in astronomical time as our superstitions and
paranoia consume us.


I have to agree.

I was read a story -- and it claimed to be true -- that after the
Soviets successfully launched Sputnik a jubilant Mao contacted
the Soviets, telling them to immediately use it to destroy the
United States.

Yes, yes, Sputnik was a harmless satellite, but the story
illustrates two points.

The first is that monumentally ignorant people DO manage to
obtain great power. In addition to the case of Mao, Stalin
himself was a complete moron who thought evolution was a
western conspiracy, and that wheat could be "Trained" to grow
in the frozen Siberian tundra.

The second point it illustrates is that many people -- some of
them national leaders -- aren't interested in peace. Mao never
was. He denounced "Peaceful Coexistence," preaching for
political change at the barrel of a gun.

I hate to say it, and I know it's not PC, but there are countless
people out there, right now, who aren't interested in "Self
Defense," and seek WMDs in order to destroy, and would not
hesitate to use them, if & when they get their hands on them.