The alien hypothesis?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Actually, "Science" does seem to spend an awful lot of time (and money)  
investigating whether Mars could support, or has supported, organic  
life and so forth. I'd imagine that the probability of the existence of  
"life" elsewhere in the universe could be calculated scientiffically,  
i.e. via some sort of equation where the expanse of the known universe  
is moderated against the likelihood of environmental and chemical  
conditions needed to generate and sustain "life" manifesting  
spontaneously. I suspect that the odds would be quite good.  
Hypothetically-speaking, that is.

As to "intelligent life" or UFOs, well, that'd be a separate equation.  
Or a derivative of the first. But the concept of "intelligent life" is  
problematic in that it's another one of those self-defining systems or  
semantic constructs. And, coming at it from another perspective, it's a  
little but egotistical, if not downright solipsistic, to assume for  
oneself the mantle of supreme being in all of existence.

Anyway, Pynchon ref: Vineland pp. 63-7.

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> Right.  There's lots of "perspectives"  on
> UFOs-have-landed-and-abducted-hayseed-fuckheads-and-fucked-them-up- 
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> h-probes...none
> of  which I can take seriously...
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> A...and - Rosswell? =20
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> kwp