Re: UFO EVIDENCE VS. Carl Sagan

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From: Frank Manning
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:37

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While we're on the subject, I will put forward the following idle hypothesis:

Whatever UFO's are, they don't originate from outside the solar system. That's
because it's not possible to develop the computational resources required to
design, build and operate interstellar vehicles. By the time a civilization
advances enough to tackle the job, programmers spend all their time in
religious wars over operating systems and languages, and the programmers never
get anything done.

For proof, look at the comp.lang.* and comp.os.* newsgroups, and extrapolate
into the future :)

-- Frank Manning
-- This sentence is here so I can use the word paradigm.

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From: frank@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning)
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Subject: Re: UFO EVIDENCE VS. Carl Sagan
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