In a message of 30 Apr 98 CRAIG MEEKINS wrote to me:
 CM> I believe on a link to the above page there is evidence of the planets
 CM> that have been found.
No planets have been found. What has been found is evidence that is generally 
accepted as conclusive that suns have been found to have planets. That's not 
quite the same as finding planets.
 PF>> same face to the sun. One side is super hot and dry and the other
 PF>> frozen and dry. Nobody can say these are not typical and our solar
 PF>> system is the typical system. Ours might be unique.
 CM> Well I don't or to that fact no one has absolute proof of any life on
 CM> another planet.
What? No one has absolute proof? Don't you mean no one has a tiniest scrap of 
evidence?
 CM> another planet.  But it is safe to assume that it has to exist on some
 CM> other planet in the millions of galaxies out there.  Now whether or not
It is definitely *not* safe to assume that. No theory about how life began 
has yet been formulated. It could have been such a way out chance that the 
odds of it occurring twice in the universe are a million  to one against. No 
scientist would say that given the right mix of chemicals and enough time it 
_will_ happen. All they will say is that it happened once.
_patrick_                 (email: patrick.ford@amiga.gen.nz) 
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