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To: average joe who wrote (857)2/15/2014 2:55:50 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 926
 
Last week, SETI's Seth Shostak made the claim that we'll detect an alien civilization by 2040.

What self-serving B.S. The only way that could not be total B.S. is if he knows something he's not telling us. That would make me disrespect him more.



To: average joe who wrote (857)2/15/2014 8:28:39 PM
From: sense  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 926
 
" What, if anything, would change in the trajectory of a civilization's development if it had definitive proof that intelligent extraterrestrials (ETIs) were real?"

It depends... are they terrorists ? Or, lawyers ?