The alien hypothesis?

[Mike Beiderbecke]

Actually somebody did just that a couple years ago. Probability 1: Why There
Must Be Intelligent Life In The Universe by Amir D. Aczel.
Take it with may grains of salt.

Regards


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: The alien hypothesis?


> 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.
>
> best
>
> > From: KXX4493553@[omitted]
> > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:00:31 EDT
> > Subject: Re: Big Bang?
> > To: tristero69@[omitted], jbor@[omitted], pynchon-l@[omitted]
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> > tristero69@[omitted]:
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> > Right.  There's lots of "perspectives"  on
> > UFOs-have-landed-and-abducted-hayseed-fuckheads-and-fucked-them-up-
> > the-ass-w=
> > it
> > h-probes...none
> > of  which I can take seriously...
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> > A...and - Rosswell? =20
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> > kwp
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