Date: Mon, 23 JAN 1995 10:52:57 -0500 From: oracle-request@cs.indiana.edu Reply to: oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle Subject: Usenet Oracularity #707-02 Selected-By: "Bill McMillan" The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh Great Oracle, > > Is there anybody else in this galaxy besides us? And if there are why > haven't they contacted us yet? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Why yes, splurgeous supplicant, it just so happens that I also answer } questions for a curious race of bipedal beings on a blue-green planet } with a yellow sun over in the opposite arm of the Galaxy. I'm not sure } you'd really call them intelligent though. } } As for why they haven't been in touch, they're a bit confused; some } want to build giant radiotelescopes, others reckon on the power of } their minds (bit of a joke really)...however they did launch a thing } called Voyager which should reach these parts in a few billion years, } more by luck than judgement. } } I could always pass on a message for you; but you'd probably wipe each } other out in a war over who gets to change all their internet } addresses. } } You owe the Oracle a break from all those questions about sproolgeeps.