William T Goodall wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1993006,00.html
>
> "So much space, so little time: why aliens haven't found us yet
>
>
> Ian Sample, science correspondent
...
> Using a computer simulation of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, Rasmus
> Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr institute in Copenhagen,
> proposed that a single civilisation might build eight intergalactic
> probes and launch them on missions to search for life.
...
William--
Did you post this just to make us mad? : ) Thanks, but at
least one of the people involved doesn't impress me much.
Sample seems to mean "intragalactic", instead of "intergalactic".
And how did Bjork settle on 8? Is this some sacred number that
aliens love?
---David
Missed the Eight Memo, Maru
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