From: Daniel Boyd Fox (foxd@indiana.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 07:58:39 PDT
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, LARRY KLAES wrote:
>
> Does the SETI Institute have a formal position on the Fermi Paradox or not?
> Isn't a robotic probe by the SETI Institute's definition a UFO? If not, why the
> sudden interest in robotic probes, when we've been told they can't get here?
>
The thing about UFOs is that if you see an object that is flying and you
have no idea what it is, it's a UFO. Until some information is gathered
on it you have no idea what it is, but that doesn't mean it is
extra-terrestrial, it just means you haven't looked closely enough at it
to identify it.
Looking for Alien Space Probes is going to involve looking for objects in
space that do not appear natural and studying them closely to see what
they are. Even if they are not Alien Space Probes we will still gain
scientific knowledge from doing this.
There is also the factor that UFOs tend to be unpredictable and hard to
study closely, while an Alien Space Probe is going to hang around for a
while.
73,
Daniel Fox
KF9ET
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