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Winning the E.T. Lottery

Posted by michael on from the offer-them-reeses dept.

Consul writes "Space.com has a cute story about the statistical probabilities that we have been visited by an alien civilzation. He seems to make a convincing argument."

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  1. Re:Vanishingly small probabilities by tenman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While there is little possibility that aliens have visited our planet, the god of spelling corrections has. Although one might thing that the god of spelling corrections also possess the powers of syntax and grammar checking, this responsibility must be left to one or more of the other gods. Who, you may ask, is this deity that is rude, brutal, and unbending beyond reason? I submit to you jkramer spelling Nazi extraordinaire.

    Dear god,

    Please accept my humble apologies and this rewrite of my previous post...

    " What are the probabilities that if ETLF(s) were to visit the earth, that there is a single thing we could/should/would do about it? This argument is mute. This guy is just looking for some short lived publicity and even talks about it in the beginning of his article. His points are silly at best, and down right retarded in all cases. If I have to pick three points to prove aliens have never landed, all three that he used would be tied into one. While I appreciate the idea behind his article, it was weak, confusing, and misleading. "

    BTW: Why didn't you point out that I used the word 'guys' when the correct word would have been 'guy'?

    P.S. I'd like to give a big SMD, to the AC who stole the first reply to jkramer. I'm just glad you had the extra time one your hands to follow that up. The investigative reporting was awesome. I was really proud of the way you went back and reviewed my previous post. Did you check out my spelling error enriched journal?

    P.S.S I've never been in a spelling bea, i dont no houe to speel.