From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 22:15:28 MST
> Might this be a
> reason to suspect we
> will not find vary many samples of life on other planets? Unless
> technologically adept intelligent species evolved to
> circumvent the 'natural
> process' then those processes may lead non-technology life to
> cause its own
> extinction.
>
> Michael
I wouldn't be so quick to discount natural selection's ability to get around
such problems. You are talking about extinctions over a looong period of
time; long enough for evolution to try some countermeasures.
Emlyn
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