[meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

[Becky and Kirk]

Seems to me that the Mars rovers have pretty much proved that at one time 
Mars probably supported life based on their findings and observations---and 
that is right in our own back yard!
Kirk.........
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Whitmer" <prairiecactus at rtcol.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted


> To all listees pondering the Eternal Verities:
>
> Just because the Universe is really big is not an argument that there is 
> Life out there.  The Ocean is really big, but that's not an argument for 
> the existence of a Loch Ness monster or any other species of   pleisosaur. 
> I have to actually see a unicorn before I'll believe that they exist.  I'm 
> Old School,  I have to actually see a visible light photograph of just one 
> of these supposed googols of Earth like planets. All I've heard is pure 
> speculation, forumulae, projections of our loneliness, (there has to be 
> someone out there!) extrapolations, computer models, mathematical 
> probabilities, etc.  Still waiting on the evidence!  Not proof, just a 
> simple tiny shred of evidence. One simple SOS in Morse Code on any one of 
> the billions and billions of channels monitered by Seti. One peer 
> reviewed, in focus, well lit, properly exposed photograph of an actual 
> flying saucer. One little tiny fossil in a meteorite. Anything!  Closer to 
> home, I'm still waiting for anything at all from the Mars probes.  Just 
> one incontrovertible shred of evidence where all the scientists go: "Yes, 
> there's life on Mars!" Until I see this evidence I have to conclude that 
> on the closest planet that was once very  Earth like, there is no sign of 
> life. If we can't even find it on Mars,  which should have been teeming 
> with life, which should have left tons of evidence which should have been 
> found by now, then I must conclude that the Universe is a vast lifeless 
> place.
>
> The only life that I can verify by empirical evidence is right here on 
> this planet. You can do all the thought experiments you want, in your 
> imagination you can populate the entire vast Universe with bacteria, or 
> Star Trek/Star Wars like critters, whatever you like, it's all pure 
> speculation. All that we know for sure is that is Life here on Earth. 
> Plenty of it. The problem is nobody knows where it came from. Nobody is 
> really sure even what it is. Can someone tell me what  the Life Force is 
> that differentiates living things from inanimate objects? Is it Chi?, Ki? 
> Prana?  What the heck is it? Did it originate here on Earth.  (I think it 
> did.)  If it did, then how did that first coacervate of organic molecules 
> become alive in the first place? How did it know how to assemble a strand 
> of self replicating RNA? At exactly what point did the Life Force enter 
> this assemblage of non living stuff? Don't even get me started on the 
> Miracle of Intelligence/Consciousness! As if anyone knows what that little 
> voice in your head is!
>
> This should be pretty simple stuff to figure out, even for a young, dumb 
> species like homo sapiens.  After all, it happened right here on our home 
> planet just a few billion years ago right under our noses.  People will 
> tell you otherwise, but we don't have a clue as to what life is or how it 
> got started.   Until these basic questions about the origins of life on 
> our own planet are answered  I think we're getting way ahead of ourselves 
> by believing in aliens. Little green men or tall gray men, I have to see 
> one to believe in them.
>
> Dos mas pesos,
>
> Phil Whitmer
>
> Nota bene:  Of course I could be completely wrong and Dr. Edgar Mitchell 
> could be completely right!
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