My guess is that intelligent life isn't like the human enterprise at all. I often think we are waiting to receive communication that would let us change.
On 21 Oct, 23:03, William L Houts <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, Illuminated Friends, > > I'm thinking I may have already asked this question in essence, but I'm > rolling it out again. It seems that I'm the high woo woo guy in this > crowd, though I freely admit that everyone entertains my high woo woo > ideas with all seriousness and courtesy. > > So this is the thing: does the final game boil down to just humans and > God --whatever who / that is-- or do you suppose that we share this > huge universe --a universe positively dripping with poisonous gamma > rays-- with alien others? For my own part, I'm thinking that the > cosmos has cooked up numerous quasi-crustacean species on at least > hundreds of thousands of worlds in our galaxy alone, with an additional > several hundred sentient species for good measure. Most human beings, it > seems to me, are basically good as long as they're getting their basic > animal requirements met, so I also think that a few intelligent > anthropoids have survived long enough to have become space-faring > peoples. It is beyond me, though, why any such people would find us very > interesting at this point in our history. Another thousand years, should > we make it that long, though, and I think that the "Alien Love Fest" > sequence from the end of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" will have > become reality. > > --Mad William > > -- > "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead > and boy are my arms tired." --
