Wayne Eddy wrote:
> Hi All, I just joined the list last night after finding a reference to it on
> a page about the now mothballed (??) Startide movie.
Hi Wayne, welcome to the list. This is my second attempt at replying to you,
the first having apparently been lost in the ether.
>
> Of the 40 or so posts added overnight this is the only one that I would have
> thought is especially relevant to the list. Are the discussions usually
> more or less David Brin / Science Fiction orientated or are they always
> about bad language and the situation in the middle east?
We talk about anything and everything, as Dr. Brin himself insisted that the
list remain unmoderated (back in the days when he was a list participant
himself). In the words of one once prolific listmember "All is Brin".
That being said, please feel free to initiate an "on topic" discussion.
Anything to help derail the current unpleasantness is certainly welcome.
More information about the list is available at Steve Sloan's site:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~ssloan/ and Jeroen's site: http://www.brin-l.com/.
Also, for more information about the author himself his site is at
http://www.kithrup.com/brin/. Finally, what archives there are are at Yahoo
Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brin-l/messages/
>
> As for giant space ships streaking at great speeds through the sky I have a
> couple of comments. First an unoriginal one. If it was possible it should
> of happened by now, unless of course intelligent life is very rare, and we
> are it in this corner of the universe.
We discussed the Fermi paradox recently. I personally find it hard to believe
that life is rare. I also think its a bit presumptuous of us to declare the
universe devoid of life because we can't detect it. But then I also think it
presumptuous to declare we know how the universe originated. 8^)
--
Doug
Them's fightin' words!!! <G>
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