[meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted

From: Becky and Kirk <bandk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:18:23 -0500
Message-ID: <1854CA7BB28D469EA2C43E066FC8A942_at_owner55652f88b>

Seems to me that the Mars rovers have pretty much proved that at one time
Mars probably supported life based on their findings and observations---and
that is right in our own back yard!
Kirk.........
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From: "Phil Whitmer" <prairiecactus at rtcol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted


> To all listees pondering the Eternal Verities:
>
> Just because the Universe is really big is not an argument that there is
> Life out there. The Ocean is really big, but that's not an argument for
> the existence of a Loch Ness monster or any other species of pleisosaur.
> I have to actually see a unicorn before I'll believe that they exist. I'm
> Old School, I have to actually see a visible light photograph of just one
> of these supposed googols of Earth like planets. All I've heard is pure
> speculation, forumulae, projections of our loneliness, (there has to be
> someone out there!) extrapolations, computer models, mathematical
> probabilities, etc. Still waiting on the evidence! Not proof, just a
> simple tiny shred of evidence. One simple SOS in Morse Code on any one of
> the billions and billions of channels monitered by Seti. One peer
> reviewed, in focus, well lit, properly exposed photograph of an actual
> flying saucer. One little tiny fossil in a meteorite. Anything! Closer to
> home, I'm still waiting for anything at all from the Mars probes. Just
> one incontrovertible shred of evidence where all the scientists go: "Yes,
> there's life on Mars!" Until I see this evidence I have to conclude that
> on the closest planet that was once very Earth like, there is no sign of
> life. If we can't even find it on Mars, which should have been teeming
> with life, which should have left tons of evidence which should have been
> found by now, then I must conclude that the Universe is a vast lifeless
> place.
>
> The only life that I can verify by empirical evidence is right here on
> this planet. You can do all the thought experiments you want, in your
> imagination you can populate the entire vast Universe with bacteria, or
> Star Trek/Star Wars like critters, whatever you like, it's all pure
> speculation. All that we know for sure is that is Life here on Earth.
> Plenty of it. The problem is nobody knows where it came from. Nobody is
> really sure even what it is. Can someone tell me what the Life Force is
> that differentiates living things from inanimate objects? Is it Chi?, Ki?
> Prana? What the heck is it? Did it originate here on Earth. (I think it
> did.) If it did, then how did that first coacervate of organic molecules
> become alive in the first place? How did it know how to assemble a strand
> of self replicating RNA? At exactly what point did the Life Force enter
> this assemblage of non living stuff? Don't even get me started on the
> Miracle of Intelligence/Consciousness! As if anyone knows what that little
> voice in your head is!
>
> This should be pretty simple stuff to figure out, even for a young, dumb
> species like homo sapiens. After all, it happened right here on our home
> planet just a few billion years ago right under our noses. People will
> tell you otherwise, but we don't have a clue as to what life is or how it
> got started. Until these basic questions about the origins of life on
> our own planet are answered I think we're getting way ahead of ourselves
> by believing in aliens. Little green men or tall gray men, I have to see
> one to believe in them.
>
> Dos mas pesos,
>
> Phil Whitmer
>
> Nota bene: Of course I could be completely wrong and Dr. Edgar Mitchell
> could be completely right!
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