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|    Les Albert to Questor    |
|    Re: UFOs    |
|    14 Jul 21 16:45:15    |
      From: lalbert1@aol.com              On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:29:50 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:              > ...       >You seem to have covered most of the bases already with a facility that is       >suspicicious -- what are you hiding? (grin) Do you know something we don't?       >If we say that it is the most popular option -- that some UFO sightings are       >aliens -- I can't fathom how that comports with their peek-a-boo behavior.       >Either the glimpses afforded are intentional, in which case they are some kind       >of tease or probe, or they inadvertent, in which case beings with the tech to       >travel between the stars and otherwise cloak themselves are very sloppy.       >I just don't see having that advanced capability, finding life somewhere else       in       >the galaxy, and then being so coy about about making full contact, especially       >given the supposed technological disparity. But then, who can get inside the       >mind of an alien?       >I think the universe is simply too incredibly huge not for there to be life       >somewhere else; indeed, multiple somewhere elses. Some of it may even be       judged       >to be intelligent, at least by human standards. But the chances of any of it       >travelling here seems infinitesimally small.                     Maybe the aliens are scoping us out for their vacation plans as in the       1987 movie, "Predator" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)              Les              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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