> On 25 Jan 98, concerning _Speculations_, Jack Sargeant said to
 > Charles Daniels in UFO:
 >  JS> Using known physics as a guide line, Returning the information found
 >  JS> on earth to their home world, the aliens would be communicating to
 >  JS> relatives far into their own future. Whoever sent them on their
 >  JS> cosmic mission would have a wait of thousands of years for the
 >  JS> results of said mission. ...It almost seems pointless.
 > For beings whose average lifespan is less than a century, it seems
 > pointless. For beings whose average lifespan is such that
 > thousands of years is roughly equivalent to a boring Sunday
 > afternoon...
An alien race that was similar to our own, but several thousands of
years more advanced, would certainly have a lifespan greater than our
own. Even the last 300 years has seen our average lifespan double
from 40 years to 75. 300 years may be a reasonable life span in a
thousand years or so.
Regards,
Jack
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