<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:59 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>T<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>oday we look up at the stars and wonder if we’re alone in the<br>
universe. In fantasy and science fiction, we wonder what it might be<br>
like to meet other intelligent species, like us, but not us. It’s<br>
profoundly sad to think that we once did, and now, because of it,<br>
they’re gone.</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font size="4">There is nothing unique about humans in that regard, when two species occupy the same environmental niche there is always conflict; but that's irrelevant as far as ET is concerned because we wouldn't be in the same environmental niche. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span> </font></div></div></div>