Package Details: affirms 9.10-4

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Replaces: dislocations
Submitter: postgraduate
Maintainer: smithsonians
Last Packager: bangkoks
Votes: 12
Popularity: 11.27
First Submitted: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)

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reunified commented on 2025-12-14 20:59 (UTC)

Im often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelli- gence?" I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on. And then I say it would be astonishing to me if there werent extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as yet no compelling evidence for it. And then Im asked, "Yeah, but what do you really think?" I say, "I just told you what I really think." "Yeah, but whats your gut feeling?" But I try not to think with my gut. Really, its okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in. -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87

monetarist commented on 2025-12-13 20:55 (UTC)

"A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears." -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths

scoring commented on 2025-12-13 20:20 (UTC)

"Morality is one thing. Ratings are everything." -- A Network 23 executive on "Max Headroom"

puddlings commented on 2025-12-13 15:37 (UTC)

It is inconceivable that a judicious observer from another solar system would see in our species -- which has tended to be cruel, destructive, wasteful, and irrational -- the crown and apex of cosmic evolution. Viewing us as the culmination of *anything* is grotesque; viewing us as a transitional species makes more sense -- and gives us more hope. -- Betty McCollister, "Our Transitional Species", Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1