II> As far as the "There is no way that someone else from somewhere else
 II> can get here" school of thought:  We basicaly know what _OUR_ technology
 II> can do, however we don't have the foggiest idea of what the technology
 II> of some other race that developed maybe 10 or 100 or 1,000 light years
 II> from here - a race which may be 10,000 years ahead of us - can do. 
Actually, we do have some idea, just in terms of energy requirements and the 
like.  If you are a Star Trek fan, I would suggest you read _They Physics of 
Star Trek_.  It talks a bit about what the energy requirements would be for 
some of the things they do (like warping space, traveling at their speeds, 
etc.)  I'm about to start _Beyond Star Trek_, by the same author, and he 
discusses various UFO-related subjects in there as well.
 II> Stop and think how much OUR technology has lept foreward in the last 100
 II> years:  A hundred years ago man had never flown in a heavier-than-air
 II> aircraft, and now we have walked on the Moon.  100 years ago the nearest
 II> things to a computer were the abacus and the slide rule, (which may only
 II> have been invented a century ago for all I know), now you have a 
omputer
 II> on the desk in front of you that can do more calculations in one second
 II> than you could do in a lifetime with a slide rule and paper!  A hundred
 II> years ago our main transportation was powered by horses, now we have
 II> hundreds of horsepower under the hood, and we can travel all day at a
 II> mile a minute instead of 20 miles an hour with rest periods every so
 II> often for the horses.  If this illustrates the progress we have made in
 II> a short century - an eyeblink in history - how much more could be done 
y
 II> our technology in another thousand years?  Or ten thousand years?  Is it
 II> just POSSIBLE that another technology has broken the light barrier?  Our
 II> theoriticians say it MIGHT be done.  I won't discount the POSSABILITY.
I'm not discounting the possibility either, Ivy.  Is it likely?  No.  It is 
POSSIBLE?  Maybe.  The fact remains that until we have good evidence that 
some aliens ARE visiting us, it's all nothing more than speculation and 
belief without backing.
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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