-=> Quoting Laurie Appleton to Jack Sargeant <=-
 LA> Hi Jack,
 LA> (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?
 LA> Laurie,
The distances are not that great, and a star with planets around
it, if at 25 light years distance would be accessable in a little
over 25 years of Earth time, if the space ship employed was capable
of travelling at close to the speed of light.
The time would be relative (A.Einstein)
E = mc^2
 
 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.
Very well put!
 LA> Thank you for that comment. However, as in the case of
 LA> the previous message, I decline to comment further on the
 LA> grounds that almost anything that I say will be claimed to
 LA> be off-topic.
 LA> Laurie
I don't think that a discussion of this subject in this echo is off
topic. It would be up to the moderator to caution you when you do go
astray Laurie.
Cheers!
James
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