From: ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Thu Apr 23 1998 - 19:12:01 MDT
At 11:09 4/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>And who's to say that any aliens we meet wouldn't be anarchic scientists
>who would regard politics as quaint and 'diplomacy' as plain old lying? If
>we're anything like correct I think that's far more likely than Star Trek
>or Babylon 5...
>
> Mark
>
>P.S. Not that I believe in aliens anywhere near our level anyway.
Any aliens who make it here will probably be at or above our level, at least
technologically...
If we are going to worry about meeting aliens in space, we ought to be a bit
more concerned about letting NASA have a virtual monopoly on exploration.
Happily, they should have some real competition in the next few years...
Chuck Kuecker
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