The alien hypothesis?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 15/10/2005 Otto wrote:

> All these estimations necessarily must go wrong because we have no 
> single piece of "evidence" of any other "developed" life somewhere 
> else.

I think the scientists working in this field would argue that the 
development of life on earth is all the evidence that is required to 
form the hypotheses.

[...]

>> it's a little but egotistical, if not downright solipsistic, to 
>> assume for oneself the mantle of supreme being in all of existence.
>
> Indeed, if there's a more intelligent species than mankind on our 
> planet it might have been so intelligent to hide this fact (or itself) 
> before us!

Well, no, I meant elsewhere than this planet. Opposable thumbs seems to 
have been the big breakthrough here.

best