<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">the night sky looks uninhabited very nicely, namely that it IS
uninhabited because we are the first, after all somebody had to be.<br><br> John K Clark<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What happens when a group of individuals are perfectly adapted to their environment? No progress, right? Mutations maybe be dealt with like chickens deal with obviously different chicks - kill them. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Look at the AmerIndians, the sub-Saharan Africans, the South American Indians, and others. Would they still be living the same life if they hadn't been disturbed by European explorers? A good bet is "yes". Why couldn't a culture exist that just keeps doing the same thing for millions of years because it keeps on working? Humans have a drive to invent and create and no other species on our planet has it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Maybe alien cultures are just Type B, laid back, content, no inevitable population pressure, etc.<br><br>bill w<br></div><br></div>