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To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (2637)	4/16/1997 9:36:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	of 4006

Ignacio: You have redefined the question. Now you qualify it as who we can talk (communicate) with: >>It is more likely that we are the only intelligent life in this galaxy that we can communicate with.<< >>. . . but the point is that you can be rational and still believe that there is no one out there that we can talk to.<< I agree. We haven't had radio for very long, and it may be an extremely primitive form of communication. Freeman Dyson once speculated that as an intelligent race truly advanced into space travel, radio would become archaic and a new physics of "closed" versus "open-ended" communication would emerge. Using this scenario, we could be surrounded (albeit at "arms length" of 40 or more light years distant) by myriads of intelligent species ranging anywhere from a few thousand to a few million years ahead of us on the technological curve. Father Terrence

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