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They wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:50:05 -0500
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> >From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
> >Subject: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
> >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:55:18 -0800
> >Now, while chemistry dictates which sequences code for which
> >amino acids, thus making it likely that a DNA using cell from
> >elsewhere would also use those same sequences to code for those
> >amino acids (assuming those amino acids were used in their
> >proteins, which is not a given either), the other sequences,
> >especially the promoter and terminator sequences, are choices
> >made by evolution from a fairly wide set of possibilities. And
> >because inhibition of sequences in terrestrial organisms is based
> >on a chemistry which typically blocks the promoter, the chances
> >of a DNA based alien biochemistry being able to use our DNA in
> >its reaction networks seems highly unlikely.
> Mark,
> Absolutely correct.
> And a very good argument against the ETH as an explanation of
> these critters and what they are doing.
> If they evolved here, then the whole scenario changes, and the
> likelihood that their DNA would be compatible becomes quite high,
> indeed.
> This planet is very old, and there are many gaps in the fossil
> record.  We see the past in big disconnected chunks goverened by
> chance.  Intelligent life had many opportunities to evolve prior
> to our appearance.
> And that does not even include other possible terrestrial
> explanations such as time travel, parallel universes, etc.
> I simply do not understand why so many cling to the idea that
> what we are attempting to understand must be ET in origin.  I
> think the probabilities are much higher that the phenomenon,
> whatever it may prove to be, is completely earthly in origin.
> Bob

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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 13:11:31 -0400
From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
Bob:
The evidence is overwhelming that we are dealing with
manufactured vehicles whose technology is well beyond ours
especially for the 1940s.
We could be their colonies. We could have a common origin. The
earth is not an old planet. There are stars 5 billion years older
than the Sun.
We know little about our past beyond a million years. Where is
the problem? Also, we are just beginning the age of genetic
manipulation, doing routinely things thought impossible 40 years
ago... No problem with ET except for those unwilling to stretch
their understanding.
Stan Friedman
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