Originally Posted by Anteater

There's circumstantial evidence that supports the idea that we've been visited at some point by extraterrestrials, but it's also just as likely that we're like the 3rd or 4th civilization to be born on this planet and there's just no trace left of prior supercivilizations. Wiped off the map to the point where there's nothing left to carbon date.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.