On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:12 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 May 2014 23:32, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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. >> >> Functionally similar (perhaps), but certainly not genetically similar. We > aren't even gentically similar enough to interbreed with any other species > that evolved on the same planet under very similar conditions to us - for > example, we are very closely related to chimps, but we still can't > interbreed with them. >
Ok, but now you're making the requirements more stringent. We were talking about outer-space fetishists, not necessarily interbreeding. So functional similarity might be enough, as alluded in "sheep are nervous". :) > > It is however fascinating that we're so fascinated by this idea. From "I > married a monster from outer space" via Mr Spock to "Mars needs women!". > > -- > 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.
