Hi all,
At 06:50 PM 4/15/2002 Monday , Pete wrote:
>
>On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>What difference does it make whether there are any other
>>species "out there", be they ETs or cherubims, seraphims,
>>principalities (and, oh, yes, the Pope himself!)?
>
>[snip]
>The difference would be that at a minimum, they would have a sufficiently
>superior knowledge of technology to contact us. Considering the
>time depth of the store of human knowledge vs the age the of the
>universe, the odds are almost certain that their society would
>be orders of magnitude older than ours, and their knowledge further
>beyond ours than we could begin to imagine. However, like I said
>in the other post, I don't expect to hear from them, they would
>be far too wise to be so rash. -PV
>
They may want to keep us as pets. We might be highly amusing to them.
Our communications might be for them like dog barks or bird calls
are to us.
Dennis Paull
