On 27 Jan 98, concerning _Speculations_, Jack Sargeant said to Charles 
Daniels in UFO:
 JS> Even if communication was established tomorrow via radio telescope,
 JS> our reply would take years to arrive on their home world. two-way
 JS> communications would be impossible. A chess game would take longer
 JS> to play than our solar system will last.
That's the ironic thing about establishing the existance of ET intelligence 
by finding a radio signal:  It won't prove that we aren't alone in the 
universe, because odds are that the civilization that sent the signal is 
long, long gone.
... catfish@wingnet.net or http://surf.to/troy >420 hits!
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