Mind's Eye Re: Aliens, Slavery and Resources

I find it hard to think technologically advanced beings would be
bastards Bill. The so-called trade of imperialism was actually
depraved - with concentration camps, limb-severing and so on. Queens
have to have their dramas mate! The aliens could be as bad as we have
been. It would be good to explore good aliens and what such a good
life might be. We could not, in current biological form, share it.
They might leave us with the means to change so we could. I'd choose
Damon Laplace's route in genetic change to travel the stars rather
than live a normal life span in an agrarian collective - but I'd
choose that over my current life in 'the economy'.

In my least favourite episode of Voyager, Janeway refuses to drop her
knickers for the technology that will get her crew home. There could
be reasons for carrying a few casual queens in our crew! The quirks
thrown up in evolution usually have their uses.

I think the chimps and dolphins ponder the human questions Lee. Many
animals, including chimps and scrub jays seem to hold 'funerals'.
Some clams live 500 years (off Iceland) without our angst. My ideal
aliens will have a rational hatred of soap opera.

On 24 Oct, 16:23, Lee Douglas <leerevdoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that Human history shows that it is very hard to break out of
> 'modes of thought' that eon, geography and culture instill into us.  How
> hard then to reason as a non Earthling would?  I think the only viable
> answer to your question is to say, I don't know.
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> Perhaps if we could get into the psyches of some of the other creatures
> that we share this planet with, we may find, or not, some similarities.  It
> is an interesting question to ponder though.  Does having
> a consciousness at a level sufficient enough to
> claim intelligence, inevitably lead to the asking of similar questions?
>  Elephants, who I do belive to show a certain standard of
> emotional understanding and intelligence, do they ask 'Life! What's it all
> about?'
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> On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 12:19:42 UTC+1, William L. Houts William L.
> Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote:
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> > All right, I just wanted to run this by you guys.  I know it seems I'm
> > always rattlling on about aliens, but they're really a stand in for,
> > well, for a lot of things.  Anyway, I've been on Facebook and recently
> > made a status report commenting on the conversation we had going on here
> > about hypothetical aliens and what they might or might not want from
> > us.  And I was making the point that I made here: that said aliens will
> > turn out to be just as befuddled by it all as we are, and are probably
> > in no position to give us the goods on life's mysteries, or even make a
> > good cocktail.
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> > Now, my friend Matt, who is very smart but also very bitchy, put forth
> > Professor Hawking's notion:  that we'd better keep our heads down low,
> > because history tells us that when a more technologically advanced
> > species meets a less developed one, the results are usually horrible for
> > the latter.  I replied that yes, this does seem to be the pattern in
> > Earth history.  But, I went on, races which manage to break the
> > lightspeed barrier are going to have better things to do than enslave 7
> > billion people, or even mistreat them very much. Their energy problems,
> > I said more or less, will have been solved to such an extent that they
> > won't have to vampirize us.  Matt made it clear that he thought I was
> > being terrifically naive.
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> > Now, Mat is quickly becoming a sour old queen, but I want to know: with
> > whom would you agree?  Or is there a third answer which I haven't
> > proposed here?
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> > --Bill
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> > --
> > "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
> >   and boy are my arms tired."

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