Re: SETI
- From: Rowan Malin <rowan__malin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:39:22 -0400
Walter Bushell wrote:
In article <e311ml$bol$7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul J Gans <gans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert J. Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul J Gans wrote:>Do you mean to imply that dam building is learned behavior!
Do you suppose that beavers are born knowing how to build dams?No, but they have the wherewithall to learn how. Just like humans have
the necessaries to learn languages. No one is born knowing a language
but almost all of us are born with the ability to master a language.
I suspect an early proto-beaver accidentally did something to impound
water then he thought to himself (so to speak) -- Hey! Wait a minute!
Perhaps we ought to launch an expedition to Beaverdom and
study an alien intelligence?
----- Paul J. Gans
How about a program to see if there is intelligent life on Earth?
Amazingly on-topic...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us its just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe.
The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there' bugger all down here on earth.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
by Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Eric Idle & Terry Gilliam & Terry
Jones & Michael Palin.
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