Re: Mind's Eye The Others

I have it that passing aliens will say to themselves 'should we stop
and help those poor, daft sods out'? I suspect the reply is a groaned
chorus that apes are always more trouble than they are worth.

I think we will find life or fossils on Mars soon - maybe only of
bacteria-like creatures. There are creatures on Earth that 'breathe'
sulphur rather than oxygen (or at least metabolise using the stuff -
it's very like oxygen if you remember the periodic table).
I wonder whether aliens will have a teenage phase - humans are the
only such species on Earth.

Current sway in physics is not to Big Bang - but rather a collision of
three flat universes, so the potential vastness is 'huge'. Science
fiction is an odd genre and has almost no science in it at all.
There's a planet in Alpha Centuri and possibly others - about 4.3
light years distant. One can imagine travel there with improvements
in current technology - including our own genetic transformation using
features of other life here to allow cryostasis. There's a algae that
cooperate by 'climbing on each others backs' in surf so that the top
ones get shot into the air and then jet-stream.

I like the idea of a man (suitably changed) or woman shooting off to
'breed' with an alien race that directly perceives dark matter.
Breeding would not be the kind of thing rigsy and I might imagine in a
distant alternative past involving theatre, wine, whisky and all the
fun of child-rearing and 'regret'. It might be altogether more
adventurous. Sex, by this time, might be more directly about
knowledge-sharing and a new quest for the Holy Grail. Any ideas on
wooing an intelligent arthropod Bill?

On 22 Oct, 07:10, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lol  Bill me thinks you are preoccupied with aliens...
> Of course there are "other" species the universe is to large for it
> not to occur..
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> it is more of a question of what type of space drive have they
> developed..  or have the  figured out how to grasp the very fabric of
> space and pull space toward themselves..  or how to travel immense
> distances.. fortunately we have not.
> Allan
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> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:03 AM, William L Houts <luka...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey, Illuminated Friends,
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> > I'm thinking I may have already asked this question in essence, but I'm
> > rolling it out again.  It seems that I'm the high woo woo guy in this crowd,
> > though I freely admit that everyone entertains my high woo woo ideas with
> > all seriousness and courtesy.
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> > So this is the thing:  does the final game boil down to just humans and God
> > --whatever who / that is-- or do you suppose that we share this huge
> > universe --a universe positively dripping with poisonous gamma rays--  with
> > alien others?  For my own part, I'm thinking that the cosmos has cooked up
> > numerous quasi-crustacean species on at least hundreds of thousands of
> > worlds in our galaxy alone, with an additional several hundred sentient
> > species for good measure. Most human beings, it seems to me, are basically
> > good as long as they're getting their basic animal requirements met, so I
> > also think that a few intelligent anthropoids have survived long enough to
> > have become space-faring peoples. It is beyond me, though, why any such
> > people would find us very interesting at this point in our history. Another
> > thousand years, should we make it that long, though, and I think that the
> > "Alien Love Fest" sequence from the end of "Close Encounters of the Third
> > Kind" will have become reality.
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> > --Mad William
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> > "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
> >  and boy are my arms tired."
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> |_D Allan
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> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
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> I am a Natural Airgunner -
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>  Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.

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