Helmut, would that be ...
... alien ...
... abduction?
Gene Halton
On Thu, May 17, 2018, 2:16 PM Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote:
> List,
> I am not up to date with the thread, but about the aliens topic to me it
> seems most likely, that there is a galactic confederation, which has
> declared the earth for nature reserve. Visiting earth and giving us hints
> of aliens (sending signals) is prohibited. They only take discrete actions,
> when we are about to destroy ourselves, e.g. the (quite some) times we were
> close to nuclear war. The few UFO and aliens sightings that weren´t hoaxes
> were caused by alien outlaw teenagers on joyrides with stolen or from their
> parents borrowed UFOs with disabled (neutrino or quantums entanglement)
> transponders. And so on, I will write a scifi book some time.
> Best, Helmut
>
> 17. Mai 2018 um 07:16 Uhr
> "Gary Richmond" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> John S, list,
>
> And I think it's significant in the context of the several recent threads
> that Peirce was one of the first scientists to imagine that there had to be
> a cosmos beyond the Milky Way, our own galaxy.
>
> Best,
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
> *Gary Richmond*
> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
> *Communication Studies*
> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
> *718 482-5690*
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:12 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/16/2018 5:43 PM, Gary Richmond wrote:
>>>
>>> So, at very least, the jury is still out on this question.
>>
>>
>> I certainly agree. Ray K's predictions about AI have usually
>> been unreliable or just wrong.
>>
>> The inverse square law implies that the energy of electromagnetic
>> radiation falls off very rapidly *unless* the transmission is beamed
>> directly at some intended target.
>>
>> The absence of any evidence of alien civilizations could just mean
>> that nobody in our region of the Milky Way noticed, or nobody beamed
>> any info at us, or that nobody on earth was listening if and when
>> somebody did send a message our way.
>>
>> The likelihood that any civilization in another galaxy could have
>> noticed our planet is vanishingly small. If they had detected
>> our planet, they must have detected billions of others that were
>> closer or more interesting to them. And if they had beamed a
>> message our way, it's certain that we never beamed a response
>> to them, and they probably gave up.
>>
>> John
>>
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