<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 1:13 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Regarding ET probes already being here in our solar system monitoring<br>us, here is an old 1960's Nature paper on the topic.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And today 70 years later<span class="gmail_default" style=""> there is <u>nothing</u> new to report on the topic, and I'll bet the same thing could be said 70 years from now, or 700 for that matter. </span> </b></font></div><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"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Such probes might be inclined to try to get our attention by repeating<br>our own radio transmissions back to us<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If ET figured that a one-time occurrence of repeating our own radio transmissions back to us wa<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s</span> the best way to get our attention then ET was an idiot<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>In any case, how can we be sure there aren't already probes here?</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>We can't.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> We can't be certain that rocks aren't conscious either, but I see no reason to believe that they are. </span></b></font> </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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