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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (10914)	12/12/2010 11:15:47 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Well, I can't speak for Jacques, but I have always enjoyed the "mystery" that seems to be involved (for some odd reason) in all "mysteries"! How extraordinary the solutions turn out to be when those mysteries are penetrated is, of course, variable--and sometimes barriers are indeed shattered. But as a skeptic who demands evidence from others (I mean my SGBR thread), to support their spurious fantasies...it would be indecent of me to tilt recklessly toward any irrational exuberance running apace of questionable evidence. It does not mean I reject extraordinary ideas or possibilities. But it is only fair that I keep one foot in Missouri, as I seek for answers to fit the facts...rather than facts to fit the answers. And the only thing I know about Aliens* is that apparently they are crazy about rocks! :-)* And that apparently they are careful not to disturb the slow progress of humanity... And that maybe they got rid of the dinosaurs so we would have a chance to come out of the center of the earth and survive... You see, I've thought this stuff all through, as well! ;-)

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (10914)	12/12/2010 12:03:40 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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??