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February
8, 2000
MAYBE WE ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE,
AFTER ALL from The New York Times
In the last few decades, a growing number
of astronomers have promulgated the view that alien civilizations are
likely to be scattered among the stars like grains of sand, isolated from
one another by the emptiness of interstellar space. Just for Earth's own
galaxy, the Milky Way, experts have estimated that there might be up to
one million advanced societies.
This extraterrestrial credo has fueled
not only countless books, movies and television shows -- not to mention
hosts of Klingons, Wookies and Romulans -- but a long scientific hunt
that uses huge dish antennas to scan the sky for faint radio signals from
intelligent aliens.
Now, two prominent scientists say the
conventional wisdom is wrong. The alien search, they add, is likely to
fail.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/020800sci-space-life.html
(from Kabai
Péter: peter.kabai@gmail.com)
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