On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 2:27:24 AM UTC+1, cdemorsella wrote: > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *LizR > *Sent:* Monday, May 26, 2014 5:41 PM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer > architecture > > > > On 27 May 2014 11:24, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, LizR <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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. > > > > Which would put us on a par with, say, slime mould as far as our ability > to reproduce with aliens went. That is, we might have the same genetic > code, as I think everything on Earth does - but everything on Earth can't > interbreed. > > > > Unless, sexual reproduction is also widespread throughout the galaxy… and > that species after species on planet after planet reproduce with sperm and > eggs. Now that does not mean viable offspring – but the sexual act and the > sex drive may be quite common and function in essentially the same way. > Pure conjecture on my part of course J > > > > But so what? Generally speaking, we don't want to have sex with all the > species on Earth that uses the same method of reproduction as us. Why would > you expect aliens to want to have sex with us, any more than we want to > have sex with, say, dogs? > > Perhaps… but an alien species may want to inject its code into our species > DNA – If it could travel across the gulf of interstellar space I assume it > would also have sophisticated abilities to directly edit our DNA without > the need for sex. If DNA life forms are in fact widespread and common > throughout the galaxy then presumably this hypothetical alien species would > already have vast knowledge from a diversity of planetary systems and > reading and then editing our code would not present much of an issue. > > Chris > > I can conjecture SF-y scenarios in which this might be likely, but nothing > that seems reasonable under what seem remotely likely assumptions. For an > example of something like this, see James Tiptree's story “And I Awoke and > Found me Here” - in which humans have a pathological desire for sex with > aliens (which the aliens don't reciprocate). > > But assuming some aliens *do* have a pathological desire for sex with > other species due to some evolutionary kink, then obviously if they have > suitable genitalia and can get the other species to agree, they can. > However, generally humans don't have a desire for sex with other species, > or even with the majority of members of their own species, and most other > species on Earth are similarly disinclined, for obvious evolutionary > reasons. So I don't see that this is at all likely. > > Or is this all some blokeish thing? > technological beings probably look quite similar. It's just that a lot of people still have the carl sagan hangover. Anyway, I'm up for screwing nice looking aliens if anyone's got a flying saucer
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