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Old 31-January-2008, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
The search for extra terrestrial intelligence has not yet found any. If life and intelligence exist elsewhere it seems rare. Hence there is a logical sense in which any complex planet and organism which produces sky maps can in this respect be considered a focal point in the cosmos, as a place from where the cosmos is measured.
"Seems" again. You don't know. I don't either, of course, but then, I'm not the one basing preferential frames of reference on ignorance, either.
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