-=> Quoting Laurie Appleton to Fred Austin <=-
 LA> Hi Fred,
 LA> (Re: yours of 18-Feb-1998, "Abductees.")
 
 FA>   -=> Quoting Laurie Appleton to Roger Nelson <=-
 
 FA>          Hubble has picked up on stars with other planets.
 FA> Not that long ago if memory serves correct.....
 LA> You are probably right about that, but isn't the important
 LA> thing whether such "planets", even if they happened to be
 LA> suitable for life at all, are within a distance that would
 LA> make it possible to reach the earth at all in perhaps a few
 LA> million years or so?
 LA> So what can you tell me about that sort of thing?
    Hi Laurie,
         I  do  not  know  what you  wish to  know Laurie.   Our scientific 
knowledge is not absolute.  What was once thought impossible has been shown 
not to be.  Currently our thinking  says that  distance in  space restricts 
travel.  Currently.  Yet we are there in space.   Given that  we can  reach 
space, it is logical to assume  if life  exists elsewhere  it is  possible, 
other lifeforms may reach for space.  Are you asking me for hardcore proof, 
as  in  alien  life  has  come  here.  That  does not  exist, yet  there is 
circumstantial evidence that suggests it is possible.  Our evidence is  our 
own people. Again for some no one on  the face  of this  planet has  enough 
credibility to  suggest they  saw something  that may  be alien  in nature.  
That of  course is  up to  you to  decide.  20  years ago  some astronomers 
suggested certain star systems  most likely  beared planets  ( in  theory), 
based on circumstantial scientific  evidence.  Hubble  has shown  that some 
were correct.  One day all this circumstantial UFO evidence may be shown to 
be correct also.  Nothing is in stone or final...........
Happy Trails,
Fred.
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