Hypothetical extraterrestrial life

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Tue, 26 May 1998 02:00:18 (00896166018, 3.0.5.16.19980526020018.316724ba@205.242.230.4) 

At 11:38 PM 5/25/98 -0000, J. Michael McGill wrote:

>MCGILL

><snips>

>it is unlikely that the hypothesis of life on other worlds will be 

>directly verified in the near future, but no serious arguments that 

>dispute this hypothesis have been advanced.



>DICK JONES 

>Bullshit! One guess is as good as another. The famous

>physicist at Oxford, Roger Penrose, rebutted this

>hypothesis quite soundly and co-authored a book about

>it, disproving it with physics and math.



>VINCE GARDINER 

>Now there is a strong statement, and quickly rebutted in the same

>paragraph. If one guess is as good as another, why is Penrose's better?


This Fool has no idea what rebuttal might be. All
guesses are equal. It was THE mathematics and physics
to which I pointed in reality, not the guess of Penrose.


>MCGILL

>It seems certain we are not alone in the universe.



>DICK JONES

>No, it most certainly does not. It seems certain that

>the Earth was the first place in the universe to have

>life. See Penrose for a detailed explanation from

>physics and math as to why this must be so.



>VINCE GARDINER 

>Many great people have said over the centuries that we assume too much.

>It seems we haven't yet learnt not to.

>It seems to me that if a solution to a mathmatical problem is already

>known, then it should be easy to work backwards to arrive at favourable

>question.


Some Fools have been unable to tell the difference
between facts and assumptions, but that's not true
of all. Mathematics is nothing but a game proving
nothing about reality.


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>                 The only thing more powerful than the questions is the 

>truth!


"The ability to ask the right question is more than
 half the battle of finding the answer."
  --Thomas J. Watson 

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right
 answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
  --Claude Levi-Strauss 

Very few people know how to find the truth.
I trust this unethical conversation is two-way?

Dick Jones