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From: Greg Sandow <GSANDOW@prodigy.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 14:43:22 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 01:49:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Drake's Equation

Bob Shell wrote:

>Date: 06 Jan 97 15:54:10 EST
>From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@CompuServe.COM>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Drake's Equation

> What about the idea that Earth was colonized by ETs millennia ago.   We
see UFOs
> so often because they come from here and are no longer extraterrestrial.
We see
> them so seldom because they don't want to be seen.

A perfectly valid speculation, and yet another possibility that Sagan
didn't consider when he "proved" that UFOs couldn't be visiting us in
even a fraction of the numbers required to generate existing UFO
reports.

It's easy to come up with possibilities like this...which I'm not saying
as a criticism of you, Bob! I'm saying it as a criticism of Sagan, who
was monumentally unimaginative (not to say a little smug) when he came
up with his quasi-scientific proof.

Greg Sandow