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warrrreagl · 02-09-2005, 07:15 AM

I'm pretty excited about this find of yours, ART. I haven't seen this anywhere else.

I, too, remain skeptical about extraterrestrial visits. Although I realize the humans who claim to have been passed over, visited, or abducted by aliens probably mean well and are fine upstanding credible people, it still boggles the mind that the aliens have managed to completely escape scientific detection.

I am a follower of Paul Drake's formula that considers alien intervention on this planet to be of merely anthropological origin, similar to English researchers discovering a new tribe in South America. The reason for studying such a tribe is that they are new, fascinating, and rare.

According to Drake, those same anthropological guidelines should apply to alien visitation; the only reason aliens would have for putting out the expenses to fly here in large numbers is that what we have on this planet is rare and fascinating to them. However, his equation shows that if indeed what we have on Earth is rare, then our chances of being stumbled across become almost zero. The only way to raise our chances of being discovered and investigated in large numbers is to concede that what we have on Earth is not all that rare and unique, and therefore unlikely to attract much attention throughout the Cosmos (thereby once again reducing the odds that we're being visited).

With all of that in mind, here's to hoping they've finally found something out there!

02-09-2005, 07:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	I'm pretty excited about this find of yours, ART. I haven't seen this anywhere else. I, too, remain skeptical about extraterrestrial visits. Although I realize the humans who claim to have been passed over, visited, or abducted by aliens probably mean well and are fine upstanding credible people, it still boggles the mind that the aliens have managed to completely escape scientific detection. I am a follower of Paul Drake's formula that considers alien intervention on this planet to be of merely anthropological origin, similar to English researchers discovering a new tribe in South America. The reason for studying such a tribe is that they are new, fascinating, and rare. According to Drake, those same anthropological guidelines should apply to alien visitation; the only reason aliens would have for putting out the expenses to fly here in large numbers is that what we have on this planet is rare and fascinating to them. However, his equation shows that if indeed what we have on Earth is rare, then our chances of being stumbled across become almost zero. The only way to raise our chances of being discovered and investigated in large numbers is to concede that what we have on Earth is not all that rare and unique, and therefore unlikely to attract much attention throughout the Cosmos (thereby once again reducing the odds that we're being visited). With all of that in mind, here's to hoping they've finally found something out there! __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.