Phil, I'm sure you saw this article a few months ago:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/4629672/AAAS-One-hundred-billion-trillion-planets-where-alien-life-could-flourish.html Mike Hankey http://www.mikesastrophotos.com On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Phil Whitmer<prairiecac...@rtcol.com> wrote: > Eric: > > It's my belief that We Are Alone! There's nobody out there. Life and > intelligence is a singularity, a miracle, call it what you will, it only > happened once, here on good old Planet Earth. We are the Seed that will > spread throughout the Universe by Space Migration. It's our manifest > destiny and a matter of survival. Nobody knows how or why it happened, it > just did. It was either God or chance, take your pick. There are those who > claim otherwise, but they have yet to provide even the thinnest shred of > evidence. Those who make extraordinary claims must provide some > extraordinary evidence to back it up. And they never do! Not one person > abducted by ETs has ever grabbed an alien cellphone or anything else to > prove they were aboard an intergalactic space ship. > > The argument for aliens goes something like this: "Well there's billions and > billions of galaxies, one of them has to harbor life. It just has to! You > know, a billion monkeys typing for a billion years, and one of them writes > a Shakespearean Sonnet or the Book of Genesis, whatever. I think they will > just type gibberish for eternity. Life doesn't just pop up all over the > place. It can never be created in the laboratory. It's impossible to make > live stuff out of dead stuff! (Except for that one time.) > > This argument puts a lot of faith in Chance and the Laws of Probability. > Might as well say Yahweh or Brahma did it. Evolution guided by chance and > probability, how is that any different from chaos and total randomness? > > And why do the aliens always appear in trailer parks and never at Houston > Control, NAU, or the JPL? > > Now if I could see one bit of hard evidence, I would change my mind in a > minute. > > Just my dos pesos, > > Phil Whitmer > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list