Phil, > Little green men or tall gray men, I have to see one to believe in them.
Here is the evidence you seek: http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/steve-arnold-with-alien.jpg I hope that clears things up for you. Mike Hankey http://www.mikesastrophotos.com On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Phil Whitmer<[email protected]> wrote: > To all listees pondering the Eternal Verities: > > Just because the Universe is really big is not an argument that there is > Life out there. The Ocean is really big, but that's not an argument for the > existence of a Loch Ness monster or any other species of pleisosaur. I > have to actually see a unicorn before I'll believe that they exist. I'm Old > School, I have to actually see a visible light photograph of just one of > these supposed googols of Earth like planets. All I've heard is pure > speculation, forumulae, projections of our loneliness, (there has to be > someone out there!) extrapolations, computer models, mathematical > probabilities, etc. Still waiting on the evidence! Not proof, just a > simple tiny shred of evidence. One simple SOS in Morse Code on any one of > the billions and billions of channels monitered by Seti. One peer reviewed, > in focus, well lit, properly exposed photograph of an actual flying saucer. > One little tiny fossil in a meteorite. Anything! Closer to home, I'm still > waiting for anything at all from the Mars probes. Just one incontrovertible > shred of evidence where all the scientists go: "Yes, there's life on Mars!" > Until I see this evidence I have to conclude that on the closest planet that > was once very Earth like, there is no sign of life. If we can't even find > it on Mars, which should have been teeming with life, which should have > left tons of evidence which should have been found by now, then I must > conclude that the Universe is a vast lifeless place. > > The only life that I can verify by empirical evidence is right here on this > planet. You can do all the thought experiments you want, in your imagination > you can populate the entire vast Universe with bacteria, or Star Trek/Star > Wars like critters, whatever you like, it's all pure speculation. All that > we know for sure is that is Life here on Earth. Plenty of it. The problem > is nobody knows where it came from. Nobody is really sure even what it is. > Can someone tell me what the Life Force is that differentiates living > things from inanimate objects? Is it Chi?, Ki? Prana? What the heck is it? > Did it originate here on Earth. (I think it did.) If it did, then how did > that first coacervate of organic molecules become alive in the first place? > How did it know how to assemble a strand of self replicating RNA? At exactly > what point did the Life Force enter this assemblage of non living stuff? > Don't even get me started on the Miracle of Intelligence/Consciousness! As > if anyone knows what that little voice in your head is! > > This should be pretty simple stuff to figure out, even for a young, dumb > species like homo sapiens. After all, it happened right here on our home > planet just a few billion years ago right under our noses. People will tell > you otherwise, but we don't have a clue as to what life is or how it got > started. Until these basic questions about the origins of life on our own > planet are answered I think we're getting way ahead of ourselves by > believing in aliens. Little green men or tall gray men, I have to see one to > believe in them. > > Dos mas pesos, > > Phil Whitmer > > Nota bene: Of course I could be completely wrong and Dr. Edgar Mitchell > could be completely right! > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
