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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Great Silence

Today's reading assignment considers the possibility that we might never meet other civilizations in the universe, and that we ourselves might unavoidably be doomed to extinction.

This article provides an interesting counter-argument to my post from December 31, 2007.

Such a sobering thought...

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