At 11:39 7-4-02 +0100, Richard Baker wrote: > > To quote Jody Foster in _Contact_: "If we are alone, then it seems > > like an awful waste of space". :-) > >However, life like us requires small rocky planets and a few billion >years for evolution.
The key phrase here is "life like us". Who is to say that all life in the universe *is* like us? To throw in some science-currently-still-fiction eplanations: - Maybe they live in a completely different environment (FREX water). - Maybe they are not even carbon-based but, FREX, silicon-based. - Maybe they have evolved into a non-physical form. Given the alternatives, I think it is not only presumptious to think we are alone, but also presumptious to think they must be "like us". Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
