Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Who's out there ... Message-ID: <23300028@convexs> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 09:49:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.23300028 Posted: Wed Aug 14 09:49:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:38:34 EDT References: <3165@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #R:topaz.RUTGERS.EDU:-316500:convexs:23300028:000:1097 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Aug 14 08:49:00 1985 /* Written 12:23 pm Aug 7, 1985 by LYang.es@Xerox.ARPA in convexs:net.sf-lovers */ /* ---------- "Who's out there ..." ---------- */ Even if there was life of other forms, we may not be able to communicate with any of them. We might as well be alone. /* End of text from convexs:net.sf-lovers */ Since there is strong evidence that we can't even communicate with each other (see "The History of Garbage -- USENET in the Making") when we share a common language, cultural background, basic education, etc. -- that shouldn't be overly surprising. And for real depression: try locking two politicians from opposing countries in a room together and see how much "communication" gets accomplished. [Even better: read the "local" papers in each country after the politicians return to see how well they understood what the other was saying...] Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won"t engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. Marvin