[meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

[Mike Hankey]

Phil,

I'm sure you saw this article a few months ago:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/4629672/AAAS-One-hundred-billion-trillion-planets-where-alien-life-could-flourish.html

Mike Hankey
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com



On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Phil Whitmer<prairiecactus at rtcol.com> wrote:
> Eric:
>
> It's my belief that We Are Alone!  There's nobody out there.  Life and
> intelligence is a singularity, a miracle, call it what you will, it only
> happened once, here on good old Planet Earth. We are the Seed that will
> spread throughout the Universe by Space Migration.  It's our manifest
> destiny and a matter of survival.  Nobody knows how or why it happened, it
> just did. It was either God or chance, take your pick.  There are those who
> claim otherwise, but they have yet to provide even the thinnest shred of
> evidence.  Those who make extraordinary claims must provide some
> extraordinary evidence to back it up.  And they never do! Not one person
> abducted by ETs has ever grabbed  an alien cellphone or anything else to
> prove they were aboard an intergalactic space ship.
>
> The argument for aliens goes something like this: "Well there's billions and
> billions of galaxies, one of them has to harbor life. It just has to! You
> know,   a billion monkeys typing for a billion years, and one of them writes
> a Shakespearean Sonnet or the Book of Genesis, whatever. I think they will
> just type gibberish for eternity. Life doesn't just pop up all over the
> place. It can never be created in the laboratory. It's impossible to make
> live stuff out of dead stuff! (Except for that one time.)
>
> This argument puts a lot of faith in Chance and the Laws of Probability.
> Might as well say Yahweh or Brahma did it.  Evolution guided by chance and
> probability, how is that any different from chaos and total randomness?
>
> And why do the aliens always appear in trailer parks and never at Houston
> Control, NAU,  or the JPL?
>
> Now if I could see one bit of hard evidence, I would change my mind in a
> minute.
>
> Just my dos pesos,
>
> Phil Whitmer
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