On 4/28/2013 18:54, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28:02AM -0400, staticsafe wrote: >> List seems to be a tad dead, so lets get a discussion going. >> >> Something I read yesterday: >> http://paultyma.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/why-well-never-meet-aliens.html > > Haven't read that article, yet, or this one: > http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/1834226/why-well-never-meet-aliens > completely. > >> I find myself agreeing with the author, and realizing how much my view >> of extraterrestrial life is shaped by Star Trek. > > The original Star Trek? Have you seen of those 1950(?)s movies, were an > alien was a slow moving big hairy thing making strange noises coming to > eat us? Mmmm, then again, Independence Day, is probably not that > different in the idea, just that our technology has changed for making > movies. >
Nope, not the original series, I started with TNG. I might have watched the Wrath of Khan on VHS, not sure. Independence Day, the only redeeming factor was Will Smith, the story was sort of meh. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
