On Sat Feb-28-2015 13:11, Damon A. Getsman (1:340/200) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    DAG>   By: Roger Nelson to Damon A. Getsman on Fri Feb 27 2015 20:38:11   
      
    RN> I think I'm going to side with Dr. Stephen W. Hawking on this one.   
      
    DAG>   Which bit that he's said?  The bit that it's foolish for naive   
    DAG> and undeveloped in spacefaring a race as our own to be   
    DAG> broadcasting to the stars?   
      
   Yes, but mind you, that is just an opinion I share with him.   
      
    DAG> I haven't heard anything that he's said about Ceres in particular    
    DAG> just yet.   
      
   As far as I know, he hasn't said anything on that subject.   
      
    DAG> No doubt I'll have to do a websearch as soon as my computer is    
    DAG> done swapping here.   Or did he have to say something also about    
    DAG> the likelihood of a race trying to contact our own?   
      
   That, I don't know either.   
      
    DAG> I can't remember which one it was that said it, but I find some    
    DAG> credence with the thought that any race available to travel    
    DAG> interstellarly would probably take a look at what we're doing and    
    DAG> say "Yeah, no, let's consider this a flyover system," if not    
    DAG> "Hey, all they're doing is killing each other, we can put these    
    DAG> resources to much better use!"   
      
   "If you could go anywhere in the universe, would you want to come to this   
   Looneybin to set up a plantation?"   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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