Hi Jack,
 (Re: yours of 25-Feb-1998, "Abductees!")
 > FA>          Hubble has picked up on stars with other planets.
 > FA> Not that long ago if memory serves correct.....
 >   You are probably right about that, but isn't the important
 > thing whether such "planets", even if they happened to be
 > suitable for life at all, are within a distance that would
 > make it possible to reach the earth at all in perhaps a few
 > million years or so?
 >    So what can you tell me about that sort of thing?
Laurie,
JS>      Very few people, with the exception of certain
JS> fundalmentalist extremists would suggest that there is no
JS> other intelligent life besides mankind. Not even skeptics
JS> make this claim. The one thing that separates the skeptic
JS> from the believer is whether or not any of the other races
JS> in the universe have visited the earth.
JS> Some believers say yes. Skeptics say, "Where is the proof?"
JS> That is pretty much where things stand at present.
   Thank you for that comment. However, as in the case of
the previous message, I decline to comment further on the
grounds that almost anything that I say will be claimed to
be off-topic.
Laurie
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