Re: Are We Alone ?

"Michael F. Stemper" <[email protected]> Fri, 14 May 2021 10:47:40 -0500

Newsgroups	alt.astronomy,alt.fan.heinlein,alt.books.isaac-asimov
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On 14/05/2021 08.47, a425couple wrote:
> On 5/13/2021 2:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> Ahhh, but the distances do not necessarily make it
>>> impossible for us to ever see/hear/receive a clear
>>> message from them.
>>
>> Possibly, but the vast distances still prohibit any kind of a usual
>> two way exchange.
>>
> Why in the world are you even thinking of
> "a usual two way exchange" ?

Asimov's "My Son, the Physicist" provides a much better solution.
<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62430>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Son,_the_Physicist>

> If we receive a clear unambiguous message from
> some alien advanced life, it will take us years
> to digest and analyze that fact.
> 
> Human life will be changed by just that fact.

Yeah, that too.


-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 10:18-19