On Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 4:25:43 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:20 PM Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > *> I find it interesting that people spend so much time on something we >> may never have any hope of knowing. The nearest ETI might be 50 million >> light years away. * > > > If ET was that close and was just one century more advanced > technologically then we are then we would've spotted it a long time ago > even if they didn't know any more about Quantum Mechanics or General > Relativity than we do right now. Instead we've looked billions of light > years in every direction and we see nothing. Contrary to what Carl Sagan > said, I think absence of evidence can sometimes be evidence of absence. > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > 32x > Absence of evidence is evidence of absence, but not proof of absence. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/83f06401-6997-4020-abb2-24bbfa2453e3n%40googlegroups.com.
