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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Need Help on ALIENS stuff!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.221446.10103@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <vinch.724141780@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:14:46 GMT
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- vinch@iastate.edu (The Doomsday) writes:
- : I was to write an argumentative paper about aliens.
- : The problem is I must be on the contra side of the existence of
- : extraterrestrial life....
- [...]
- : I need your help by Sunday night (Dec 13)
- : I am desperate..please please help me...
-
- Well, I missed the deadline (I usually do, just ask my boss) but as
- far as I can see, the only valid argument against ET life is:
-
- "We haven't found any yet."
-
- Of course, you'll need to figure out a way to say that in 2,000 words.
-
- It's pretty lame to make somebody write a paper arguing that X doesn't
- exist anywhere else in the universe when we can point to one place
- where it does exist. What class is this for, anyway?
-
- I suppose if you do a good job on this sort of thing, you could have a
- good career in marketing ahead of you: "There are 87 other brands of
- widgets that are exactly the same as ours, but ours is special
- because..."
-
- It would be more interesting to argue that life can't exist anywhere,
- period. Which, now that I think about it, is how people try to prove
- the existence of god.
-
- Happy Solstice,
-
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