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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Need Help on ALIENS stuff!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.161445.10080@netcom.com>
- Keywords: aliens
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- References: <vinch.724141780@vincent2.iastate.edu> <Bz913I.8LM@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:14:45 GMT
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- In article <Bz913I.8LM@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- >Quoting vinch@iastate.edu (The Doomsday) in article <vinch.724141780@vincent2.iastate.edu>:
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- >> The problem is I must be on the contra side of the existence of
- >> extraterrestrial life....
- >
- >> I am against the existence of extraterrestrial life....
- >> It is tough, huh???
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- >Tough? Impossible. The sheer number of star systems in the Universe
- >indicates that if the probability of a given star system supporting life
- >is, say, one in a billion billion, then there are countless planets out
- >there with alien life on them. Read "Extraterrestrial Civilizations" by
- >Isaac Asimov.
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- Exactly how many star systems -are- there in the Universe?
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- >Now, if you mean flying saucers playing silly buggers with the US
- >Government, that's a little easier...
- > __ _____
- >\/ o\ Paul Crowley pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk \\ //
- >/\__/ "I'm the boy without a soul." \X/
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- Rich
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