The alien hypothesis?

[Otto]

"Opposable thumbs...the big breakthrough" -- well said!

I knew you've meant elsewhere, and I fully agree!

Big Bang, God or Demiurg, from my truly limited homo sapiens point of 
view this giant universe wouldn't make much sense just for one race 
capable thinking about itself:

"Far out in the unchartered backwaters of the unfashionable end of the 
western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
  Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an 
utterly unsignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life 
forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches 
are a pretty neat idea."
(Douglas Adams)

Otto

jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 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



	

	
		
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