Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!mark From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: ALIENS Message-ID: <16@elsie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 16:47:56 EDT Article-I.D.: elsie.16 Posted: Wed Sep 26 16:47:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 07:06:02 EDT References: <36300002@acf4.UUCP> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 17 > I still like the idea that we were set down here by aliens from another > planet and are actually, just an experiment due to be terminated... > The actual theory you're referring to goes something like this: About two billion years ago, or so, some astronauts from another galaxy visited our planet, a lifeless rock in space. They looked around raised the flag, took a couple of pictures, and, just before blasting off, emptied the toilet. This is generally referred to as the "garbage theory of evolution". -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688