Count, I don't know what we'd do with our Sterling. He is our "Dos equis man" The most Interesting man on the list; and the world. Enjoy his link below;
http://www.dosequisguy.com/ As stated in quote #5 " He is the reason Aliens come to visit Earth". Thanks Sterling. Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax ---- Count Deiro <countde...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Nice summation, Sterling. I look forward to your posts and always come away > with something fresh to think about. It's three o'clock in the morning here > and I'm plagued with situational anxiety ... That's where one would rather be > awake than asleep out of fear you'll miss something. It's also during these > sleepless times that the more provocative questions arise. > > Your itemization of our off world precolonization work raises the question > that we just might be the very alien life form that we apend so much time > looking for. As the cartoon character said "We has metn the enemy and it is > us." I propose we are the dominate life form, not only in this solar system, > but perhaps the galaxy and that we arrived on this planet through panspermia > and are now proceeding to exploit our surroundings. I have no doubt that we > are, shall we say, genetically predisposed to do this and we retain a > programmed cellular memory that relentlessly advances our evolution and > constantly directs us. This is certainly not an original hypothesis, but I > think timely in light of your summations. > > Count Deiro > IMCA 3536 > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net> > >Sent: Mar 18, 2011 10:19 PM > >To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > >Subject: [meteorite-list] The Human Presence in the Solar System > > > >As of today, we have a robot explorer in orbit > >around Mercury with a year's rent paid up > >(and hopefully the lease will be renewed if > >it does good). > > > >We also have a presence in orbit at the planet > >Venus, working there since 2006, and mappers > >clicking away in our own backyard, at the Moon. > > > >Mars is crawled with rovers, orbited by imagers, > >and being mapped to a sharper resolution that > >we have charted our own planet, and more of > >our machines are readying to join them. > > > >Out at Saturn, Cassini, a plutonium-powered > >robot will carry on its long investigation of that > >entire miniature solar system out there. And > >Spring is starting on Titan! > > > >We have been poking our noses into comets > >this year, after smacking them to see what > >happens, and snatching pieces and bringing > >them home. > > > >This summer, another of our robots will visit > >a large asteroid (No. 4) for the first time. In a year > >or so it will move on to the largest asteroid, while > >the most ambitious of long-haul robots dashes > >toward Pluto. We will be at Ceres when it gets > >to Pluto... and Cassini will still be working Saturn. > > > >There are only three planets we're not already at > >nor going to. We are all over the place. Does this > >qualify for a Golden Age? (The first one being the > >Voyager Grand Tour.) > > > >If the Aliens are watching, they probably have the > >Sol System in their books as one that already has > >a dominant species, have written it off for colonization, > >and are getting ready to move on. > > > >No, the Aliens are not the problem. I worry instead > >about the Wise Men of the Potomac who want to > >beach the fleet and burn it on the shore in order to > >save the Republic from the perils of exploration. > > > > > >Sterling K. Webb > > > >______________________________________________ > >Visit the Archives at > >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > >Meteorite-list mailing list > >Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
