>As for your other question: The reason why an extraterrestrial
>civilization(an advanced one) would want to avoid detection is : they
>don't want to attract the atttention from another intelligent civilization
>that has weapons of mass detruction. They don't want to get nuked.
>Anti-matter weapons are even worse. Incidentally, the CIA recently
>released a report that
>touches on some of the things I've mentioned above. They mention briefcase
>nukes, for example. You can get a copy of this report by filing a FOIA
>request.
well, matt, got a reason why *our* intelligent civilization doesn't hide from other intelligent life with, presumably (since they're also intelligent) weapons of mass destruction? also, tell me, as an outsider, what do you think of the human race?
kelley