I have it that passing aliens will say to themselves 'should we stop and help those poor, daft sods out'? I suspect the reply is a groaned chorus that apes are always more trouble than they are worth.
I think we will find life or fossils on Mars soon - maybe only of bacteria-like creatures. There are creatures on Earth that 'breathe' sulphur rather than oxygen (or at least metabolise using the stuff - it's very like oxygen if you remember the periodic table). I wonder whether aliens will have a teenage phase - humans are the only such species on Earth. Current sway in physics is not to Big Bang - but rather a collision of three flat universes, so the potential vastness is 'huge'. Science fiction is an odd genre and has almost no science in it at all. There's a planet in Alpha Centuri and possibly others - about 4.3 light years distant. One can imagine travel there with improvements in current technology - including our own genetic transformation using features of other life here to allow cryostasis. There's a algae that cooperate by 'climbing on each others backs' in surf so that the top ones get shot into the air and then jet-stream. I like the idea of a man (suitably changed) or woman shooting off to 'breed' with an alien race that directly perceives dark matter. Breeding would not be the kind of thing rigsy and I might imagine in a distant alternative past involving theatre, wine, whisky and all the fun of child-rearing and 'regret'. It might be altogether more adventurous. Sex, by this time, might be more directly about knowledge-sharing and a new quest for the Holy Grail. Any ideas on wooing an intelligent arthropod Bill? On 22 Oct, 07:10, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > lol Bill me thinks you are preoccupied with aliens... > Of course there are "other" species the universe is to large for it > not to occur.. > > it is more of a question of what type of space drive have they > developed.. or have the figured out how to grasp the very fabric of > space and pull space toward themselves.. or how to travel immense > distances.. fortunately we have not. > Allan > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:03 AM, William L Houts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey, Illuminated Friends, > > > I'm thinking I may have already asked this question in essence, but I'm > > rolling it out again. It seems that I'm the high woo woo guy in this crowd, > > though I freely admit that everyone entertains my high woo woo ideas with > > all seriousness and courtesy. > > > So this is the thing: does the final game boil down to just humans and God > > --whatever who / that is-- or do you suppose that we share this huge > > universe --a universe positively dripping with poisonous gamma rays-- with > > alien others? For my own part, I'm thinking that the cosmos has cooked up > > numerous quasi-crustacean species on at least hundreds of thousands of > > worlds in our galaxy alone, with an additional several hundred sentient > > species for good measure. Most human beings, it seems to me, are basically > > good as long as they're getting their basic animal requirements met, so I > > also think that a few intelligent anthropoids have survived long enough to > > have become space-faring peoples. It is beyond me, though, why any such > > people would find us very interesting at this point in our history. Another > > thousand years, should we make it that long, though, and I think that the > > "Alien Love Fest" sequence from the end of "Close Encounters of the Third > > Kind" will have become reality. > > > --Mad William > > > -- > > "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead > > and boy are my arms tired." > > > -- > > -- > ( > ) > |_D Allan > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. --
