Interesting episode. I didn't know that Kevin wrote science fiction either - have to check it out.
Seth usually says something like this "my problem with the idea of people coming here from another star, are the incredible distances involved. Even if they could travel the speed of light it would still take years to get here and why would they travel that far for that long just to probe a few people and mutilate some cattle."( paraphrasing of course)
I would love to have a chance to say this to him... It doesn't seem hard or ridiculous if you consider the possibility that they didn't come here is explorers, that there is no's "Alien Superhighway" with multitudes of races and visitors coming back-and-forth. Over earths history it is possible that extraterrestrials could come here using much slower transportation. Possibly multi generation type vehicles to come and stay because They had to (once again) I know this isn't a popular idea because it just doesn't sound very cool but it makes more sense and it removes the possibility of having to solve problems such as space warping etc. What would he say to that? Another is that, what we see are actually seeing are some type of probes or a "message in a bottle?" That's for the ETH types. Of course others say it's all something else...
The Point is, it's not impossible that we have or will see something, come our way from "out there somewhere" it's bound to happen and it probably already has. Even if it's unmanned it's proof of intelligent life out there somewhere, Seth Shostak. Keep listening though STEI because I want to find out what's going on.
It just kills me (well, okay, not quite) that SETI gets a lot of money, but if you allege that
just maybe they're already here, you'll be lucky if they just laugh at you. Because, of course, since Dr. Shostak and the rest of the 'CSI Kops'
don't understand how they can get here, therefore they
can't.
Straight from the University of It Stands To Reason. Or was it the graduate school of What Some Guy In A Bar Told Me?