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No, because that's just ONE opinion. His conclusions aren't obvious, or even in the majority.

And Friedman is offering one opinion, which I must say certainly isn't obvious to me. Is he in the majority? Does that even matter? Does objective reality hinge on the whim of the majority? Most Americans apparently beleive NASA gets much more money than it does, but their opinion doesn't actually inflate NASA's budget. Sadly.

Tom's no expert. SETI's no expert, either. Friedman is. End of story.

End of dialog? Friedman's a smart guy, there's no denying it, but on this matter he's drawing conclusions that, it seems to me, are spectacularly out-of-sync with the so-called evidence that's been presented.

I'm not saying that there's nothing to be investigated, I'm just suggesting that the results of such investigations have either pointed to terrestrial explanations, or they've been completely inconclusive.

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