Russell McMahon wrote:

> Fermi (THE Fermi) said essentially "Where are they?

Gerhard (THE Gerhard) says essentially "Maybe here?" :)

> IF there are magic space aliens they are well well well overdue.
> If there is life anywhere else it should be essentially everywhere 
> else and it should have visited us here and on a regular basis.

Who says they aren't here? We couldn't find the key to paradise if it were
in our right hand, so what makes one think that we could find something
like an advanced species? (Unless, of course, it is really very much like
us -- in which case they possibly don't make it here and, truth be told,
don't actually have to... :)

Gerhard

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