On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess it would be pedantic to point out the silliness of aliens wanting > to have sex with humans. I mean, we're more closely related to grass, > jellyfish and slugs than we are to aliens... >
Makes sense, of course, but I'm not so sure. I don't think we know enough at this point to estimate the diversity of the solution space for biologically evolved entities with human-level intelligence or above. It could be that something very similar to us is the only viable solution, or the most likely solution. > > Odd that this is such a persistent meme, though. Someone (James Tiptree?) > wrote an SF short story satirising this trope in the 70s I think. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
