Why theano UFOs

To all,
It amazes me that there are a lot of people who think that mankind
(or any other "advanced civilization") is doomed to extinction after
about 10,000 years. The Dinosaurs managed to survive for well over 100
million years until a rather large rock fell on their heads.
I think most scientists agree that we're smarter that the Dinosaurs
and most of the people responding to this thread seem to think that
ET's are smarter than us. I believe we (and the ET's) deserve a little
more credit than the doom-sayers are willing to give us.

P.S. Inter-stellar distances are just too great for a whole
lot of cruising around the galaxy to be taking place. This, more than
anything, is the GREAT FILTER.

Chris

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, sraj wrote:
>
> .. Either global warming or peak oil will lead to an urgent
transformation
> of civilization as we know it, or our failure to transform quickly
enough
> might well lead to the end of civilization as we know it. And if indeed
> cheap oil is a prerequisite to the first flowering of technological
> civilization, might a Roman-Empire-style collapse due to some future
> disaster make it difficult to rebuild to spaceflight-capable levels
due to
> lack of said resource the next time around? Many of the large scale
energy
> technologies that we imagine replacing oil are energy intensive to
build.