On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > >> > >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > >>> On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>> [snip] > >>> > >>>> We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so > >>>> much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet > >>>> spins. How bazaar! > >>> > >>> How can you make such a comment when you have *no clue* as to > >>> what any other entity does? > >> > >> RE: "probably" > > > > Wasn't it Carl Sagen who caculated that there "probably" are other > > intellegent life forms in the universe, out of all those billions > > and billions of possibilities? > > > > Doug. > > I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent > life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to > contact us."
How far out would broadcasts of "The Gong Show" reached by now? Heck, we're lucky they haven't lobbed a couple of singularities into the Earth by now. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org