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[lemit]

Thanks, Riper, for reviving this thread.

Thanks, Boerseun, for saying some things I'd been thinking for a long time but had been afraid to say because I have a weak science background.

The original proof of the advanced civilization on other worlds was the canals on Mars that were so carefully designed that they must have been created by intelligent beings.

Hold on . . . I'm being told we've discovered that what appeared to be canals on closer examination proved to be natural phenomena. Well, there's surely life on a planet two counties over.

UFOlogists have a strange theory of evolution. If there is life on other planets, it must not only be developed, it must be developed so much ahead of our civilization that it has solved many problems of physics that are insoluble to us right now.

How about using the theory of evolution that, no matter what a lot of people say, seems to be working better than the alternatives? Why not, before we posit civilizations advanced on quantum levels beyond ours, find a real live single-cell organism or two?

When we are positing those advanced civilizations, given the billions of possibilities, why not develop models of the ways our own development could have been side-tracked even more than it has? Why not consider the possibility of a world perfectly content in its primordial soupiness or one in which the reign of the dinosaurs is extended a few million more years, say until now?

If we examine all of the Goldilocks hypotheses, all the worlds too hot or too cold, too hard or too soft (the UFOlogists are not the only gasbags in the universe), we can come up with a few billion alternatives that are less advanced than ours. If we add the few billion who are around our level of advancement, in other words distracted by the shadows they think must have come from space, how many billions of the space-travelling planets are left?

And what ever happened to those Martians who were here a century ago? Now there's a government cover-up that's working!

--lemit