re: #40 Charles

That article got widespread play yesterday. I read it and thought that it was just weird for Krauthammer to venture into that area as if he has something to add.

Then I realized he was just trying to impress his followers with how smart he is supposed to be.

If anyone really wanted to tackle the subject seriously, they’d start off describing how unlikely it is to detect RF from another planet because the inverse-square-law means any transmission would be so weak by the time it got to Earth that it would be hard to distinguish it from the background noise in the galaxy, which is full of billions of bodies emitting RF at power levels much greater than any civilization could generate.

Also, there is a real need to feel “special”, and part of the ID mind-set (which Krauthammer’s readers would be highly susceptible) requires that humans are unique.