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Politics : Evolution
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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (10914)12/12/2010 12:03:40 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
(I realize that I am doing injustice to the wording, but) If we lean on Occam's razor, a likely outcome is the loss of a forearm. (grin)

Speaking for myself - the idea of a superior, older technoculture coming to Earth long ago and engaging in some sort of nondestructive contact/commerce with late Neolithic man (why the restriction of contact events to that historic stratum?) is very attractive. It has a powerful draw. Imo that is the best reason for maintaining skepticism. There is a strong something within us that *wants* to believe. So it becomes our duty to filter the compelling from the merely suggestive.

I do not hold with the ideas collectively known as Danikenite. As things stand now, I think that mundane and indigenous explanations seem to suffice. Humans of the age did develop technologies to quarry and move thousand-ton slabs. Diorite is difficult but possible to work. Who's to say that the Dendera lightbulb wasn't actualy a reptile-powered vibrator? We might never know.
It's entirely imaginable that one day archeologists (or Wal-Mart backhoe operators) will uncover a something that stands head and shoulders above extant samples arguing for interstellar Nosy Neighbors. If so, I will pay real attention. But in contrast to that I offer for your consideration Brin's Question that draws its force from the apparently pristinely empty cosmos.
Where the [French seal] IS everybody??
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