The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

Any kind of science backed by and reliant upon any
kind of funding, whose source does not consider a
certain persuit - like investigating whether or not
Mars can support life - worth subsidizing, will not
provide the resources for a team to do such
investigating...this is , sadly, how the world
works....HOWEVER...there are many - all of CETI and
Frank Drake to name just the most prominent ( or
loudest ) - scientists who do such work , to the best
of their limited ability, with pad and pencil, so to
speak....always keep in mind that a considerable
amount of the "purest" science is done this way; a gal
or guy scribbling and thinking, and thinking and
scribbling...simply because THEY, not some
institiution, want to know what's possible...many
people on this site seem to have no notion of that
part of the scientific process; the part BEFORE it
becomes "appropriated" by...larger interests..


--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 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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> > =20
> > In einer eMail vom 12.10.2005 03:51:35
> Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit  
> > schreibt=
> >  =20
> > tristero69@[omitted]:
> >
> > 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...
> >
> >
> > A...and - Rosswell? =20
> >
> > kwp
> 
> 



		
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