From: dekorte@next2.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen Dekorte)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: deductive "proof" of HIghest Intelligence, defined God.
Date: 1 Apr 92 17:17:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: sun13.7980

In article <22093@goofy.Apple.COM> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)  
writes:
> In article <k4ctchp@rpi.edu>, johnsd2@jec325.its.rpi.edu (Daniel  
Norman Johnson)
> writes:
> > And of course, it may be that inteligence is a defect, and all  
inteligent
> > life forms kill themselves off (with war, pollution and whatnot).  
In this case
> > there may have been billions of inteligent races in the galaxy,  
but they
> > are all dead. (that idea was stolen mercilessly from Arthur C.  
Clarke, BTW.
> > Credit where it's due, after all)

Yeh, If I had to place a bet on how much longer we(humans) will be  
around,
I say another century or two.(biotechnology will put weapons more  
that are
far more powerful/deadly than nukes in the hands of most anyone- and  
it only takes one)
 
> Yes, I've done some personal thinking lately (!) about why the  
universe
> is so quiet. There has to be a reason why we don't have any  
connections
> with any other intelligent beings in this universe.

You might find Carl Sagans book "Cosmos" interesting - he addresses  
this
and actualy does a rough(very) calculation of how much other life  
should be
in our galaxy.

-Steve


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