On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:53 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *LizR > *Sent:* Monday, May 26, 2014 2:51 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer > architecture > > > > On 26 May 2014 23:31, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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... > > > > Unless, of course life had already spread throughout our galaxy billions > of years before our star was born and we are just the local Sol branch off > the same galactic (or who knows perhaps even larger scale) tree of life. A > plausible hypothesis – actually saw it a few nights ago on the Cosmos > reboot is that when stars transit through interstellar gas clouds (the > nurseries of new stars and planets) their attendant comet clouds become > gravitationally perturbed, initiating an era of cometary bombardment. > I think they're doing a fine job with that reboot, although probably not up to Bruno's standards, lol. Recently found a video where the host chats for 3 minutes on his take regarding "atheism and agnosticism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzSMC5rWvos PGC > If a planet orbiting a star that is transiting one of these immense clouds > get a good whack some of its life bearing rock can be hurled from the > system and every once in a great while find its way to another water > bearing planet orbiting some other star. This actually sounds plausible to > me… that interstellar nurseries are also the cosmic engines for spreading > advanced microbial life forms from planets of one star to other planets > orbiting other stars…. Over the eons. Perhaps star systems have been > exchanging DNA and microbial life since life first began somewhere in our > galaxy and that this kind of emergent process is occurring in every galaxy > in every universe with laws consonant with stable wet organic chemistry. > > Chris > > > > 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". :) > > > > Well if you're just talking about something you can put your dick in (or > an alien can put their proboscis in), that's a (ahem) broad range of items, > depending on your tastes (See "A melon for ecstasy" and "The unrepentant > necrophile" for some suggestions for things one can "have sex with" in this > sense, should one be so inclined). > > However your original reply (in blue above) certainly *appeared* to be > talking about interbreeding. (Or did you mean humanoid forms are "the only > viable solution for fetishists who happen to get their kicks from anally > probing members of other species" ?) > > > > But anyway .... OK, aliens *may* want to have sex with humans, just as a > human *may* want to have sex with orangutans - but generally they won't, > because sexual attraction is fairly fine tuned, both by evolution and > social norms (indeed it's so fine tuned that species that could in theory > interbreed often don't) - and, at least in my experience, most humans don't > even want to have sex with most other humans ..... never mind fancying > members of a different species who will almost certainly give out all the > wrong visual, behavioural, and chemical cues. > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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