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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!digex!prb
  3. From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
  4. Subject: Re: Fermi Paradox vs. Prime Directive
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug14.171239.19169@access.digex.com>
  6. Organization: UDSI
  7. References: <9208050516.AA16038@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
  8. Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:12:39 GMT
  9. Lines: 14
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  11. In article <9208050516.AA16038@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes:
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  13. >Good point. I like your "failure of extrapolation" - that basically says
  14. >that we don't know enough to come up with a good explanation for the 
  15. >Fermi Paradox.
  16. >
  17.  
  18. How about this?
  19.  
  20. Fermi's paradox in a nutshell.  If planetary colonization is possible,
  21.     why haven't we been?
  22.  
  23. My conondrum.  Who says this isn't so?
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