Hi Fred,
 (Re: yours of 25-Feb-1998, "Abductees.")
 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?
FA>     I do not know what you wish to know Laurie.  Our
FA> scientific knowledge is not absolute.  What was once thought
FA> impossible has been shown not to be.  Currently our thinking
FA> says that distance in space restricts travel.  Currently.
FA> Yet we are there in space.  Given that we can reach space,
FA> it is logical to assume if life exists elsewhere it is
FA> possible, other lifeforms may reach for space.
   Reaching space so far only got manned flights to the
Moon, which is only a little more than ONE SECOND away, if
we could travel at the speed of light - which we cannot do.
   The nearest star we know of is about 4 years away if we
were to travel at the speed of light and therefore at our
best rocket speeds so far achieved would probably take us
thousands of years to reach.
   Is it your view that extraterrestrial beings might be
able to live for thousands of years? Even Adam and Eve are
only supposed to have lived about 900 years, aren't they?
FA>      Are you asking me for hardcore proof, as in alien life
FA> has come here.  That does not exist, yet there is
FA> circumstantial evidence that suggests it is possible.  Our
FA> evidence is our own people.
     What circumstantial evidence are you talking about? Are
you suggesting that "our own people" have originally come
from space or from some other planet?
FA>      Again for some no one on the face of this planet has
FA> enough credibility to suggest they saw something that may be
FA> alien in nature.
FA>      That of course is up to you to decide.  20 years ago
FA> some astronomers suggested certain star systems most likely
FA> beared planets ( in theory), based on circumstantial
FA> scientific evidence.  Hubble has shown that some were
FA> correct.  One day all this circumstantial UFO evidence may
FA> be shown to be correct also.  Nothing is in stone or
FA> final...........
   But we are not just talking about any planet are we?
Wouldn't we really be talking about some very PARTICULAR
sort of planet? After all, we have a dozen planets or moons
of significant size in our own Solar system, don't we, but
only this planet Earth seems suitable, doesn't it?
  Thanks for replying. However the Moderator has already
claimed that I was off-topic in one or two messages. It
seems that almost anything that I say must be off-topic and
so I will not continue to leave messages here!
Laurie
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