Hi Jack,
 (Re: yours of 09-Feb-1998, "abductees.")
 LA>    Everywhere we have been in the Solar system we have found
 LA> no sign of life what ever and all efforts to communicate with
 LA> any 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!
JS>    The universe is too big for a conclusion such as you
JS> suggest. There are 200 billion suns in our Milky Way galaxy.
JS> There are at least that same number of >other< galaxies. To
JS> suggest we are the only life in all these trillions of
JS> galaxies is extremely self-centered.
   Now now now Jack. There is no call for personal abuse,
surely! Just try to stick to the facts eh. After all most
Gallup Polls and similar things only take a sampling of the
views of the population and we form judgements on such
things.
  So in the 'sampling' that our best scientists have made of
the Universe to date we can properly conclude, in terms of
what we *DO* know that we are ALONE! That has NOTHING with
being "self-centered" at all, but has everything to do with
our scientific findings.
   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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