In a message of 19 Apr 98 CRAIG MEEKINS wrote to me:
 CM> Why climb Everest, why try to find if quarks make up atoms; seeking of
 CM> knowledge makes us different from other life here...we want to learn the
 CM> unknown.
Very true. But you are claiming to know the unknown. You have done what 
scientists cannot do and still call themselves scientists- you have given the 
answer before obtaining evidence.
 PF>> There is absolutely no reason yet to believe there is any other planet
 PF>> able to give rise to or support life. Astronomers are
 CM> Yes there is, how about the Drake Equation?
I don't know of it. Can you enlighten me please?
_patrick_                 (email: patrick.ford@amiga.gen.nz) 
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