Hi Roger,
 (Re: yours of 09-Feb-1998, "abductees!")
RN> Laurie Appleton wrote in a message to Langston Goldfinch:
LG>Hello All.
LG>looking for information on people abducted to UFO - direct or no.
 LA>    You are surely joking. How can there be "information" on
 LA> something that has never taken place? Don't you understand that "it
 LA> is all in the mind"?
RN> I don't think he's joking.  Why do you?
   Perhaps you have not read many of his messages in other
places.
 LA>    Everywhere we have been in the Solar system we have found no
 LA> sign of life what ever and all efforts to communicate with any
 LA> other forms of life have failed miserably. The reasonable
 LA> conclusion is that this Earth is the ONLY place where any life
 LA> exists and has ever existed!
RN>      That's one way to look at it.  Another is to admit to
RN> yourself that nothing is impossible.  Still another is to
RN> realize that we have not landed on any Earth-like planets.
  I accept that statement as confirmation of my statements.
You have effectively acknowledged that there is NO real
evidence at all that is so far known, even if you are
prepared to speculate about what MIGHT or might not be found
in the future.
  In other words we have no effective evidence at all at
present, and significant amounts of failures of our
expectations in a number of other respects, like the Moon,
Mars, and Venus, to say nothing of the SETI project and
other expectations, further away.
   So in the present state of our knowledge and evidence the
most logical conclusing is that "We are alone"!
   I doubt if anything further has been found since a
recognised scientist wrote in 1985 that;
   "All the trails that Man has so far followed have led to
dead-ends. Radio astronomers have picked up no messages
from the stars; biologists have not been able to show that
life would inevitably arise on an Earth-like world circling
another star; astronomers have not even proved that other
stars have planetary systems; and there is no evidence that
aliens have ever visited the earth."
(The Mysterious Universe, Nigel Henbest, 1985 edition,
p.117)
Laurie
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