On Sat Feb-28-2015 13:11, Damon A. Getsman (1:340/200) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 DAG>   By: Roger Nelson to Damon A. Getsman on Fri Feb 27 2015 20:38:11

 RN> I think I'm going to side with Dr. Stephen W. Hawking on this one.

 DAG>   Which bit that he's said?  The bit that it's foolish for naive
 DAG> and undeveloped in spacefaring a race as our own to be
 DAG> broadcasting to the stars?

Yes, but mind you, that is just an opinion I share with him.

 DAG> I haven't heard anything that he's said about Ceres in particular 
 DAG> just yet.

As far as I know, he hasn't said anything on that subject.

 DAG> No doubt I'll have to do a websearch as soon as my computer is 
 DAG> done swapping here.   Or did he have to say something also about 
 DAG> the likelihood of a race trying to contact our own?

That, I don't know either.

 DAG> I can't remember which one it was that said it, but I find some 
 DAG> credence with the thought that any race available to travel 
 DAG> interstellarly would probably take a look at what we're doing and 
 DAG> say "Yeah, no, let's consider this a flyover system," if not 
 DAG> "Hey, all they're doing is killing each other, we can put these 
 DAG> resources to much better use!"

"If you could go anywhere in the universe, would you want to come to this
Looneybin to set up a plantation?"


Regards,

Roger 
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