Hahahah in my experience even the best of Queens can be a little prissy at times.
On Thursday, 25 October 2012 07:03:26 UTC+1, William L. Houts William L. Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote: > > > > > > OH, I agree with you about that. And it's basically the point I was > trying to make to my irascible friend, Matthew. I don't think you solve > your most difficult energy problems and go on to be a galactic terrorist. > Terrorism is largely a strategy of the weak. And if you've mastered > warp drive, then you probably have all kinds of toys available to you, > including zero point energy or some equivalent. > > I just finished reading Matt's latest post on Facebook. He sang a > waspish little aria about how I didn't understand reality and that he > wasn't enjoying this conversation at ALL, and that he was hereby closing > down his side of the argument. Matt really can be a pissy little queen > sometimes. > > > --Bill > > On 10/24/2012 10:01 AM, archytas wrote: > > I find it hard to think technologically advanced beings would be > > bastards Bill. The so-called trade of imperialism was actually > > depraved - with concentration camps, limb-severing and so on. Queens > > have to have their dramas mate! The aliens could be as bad as we have > > been. It would be good to explore good aliens and what such a good > > life might be. We could not, in current biological form, share it. > > They might leave us with the means to change so we could. I'd choose > > Damon Laplace's route in genetic change to travel the stars rather > > than live a normal life span in an agrarian collective - but I'd > > choose that over my current life in 'the economy'. > > > > In my least favourite episode of Voyager, Janeway refuses to drop her > > knickers for the technology that will get her crew home. There could > > be reasons for carrying a few casual queens in our crew! The quirks > > thrown up in evolution usually have their uses. > > > > I think the chimps and dolphins ponder the human questions Lee. Many > > animals, including chimps and scrub jays seem to hold 'funerals'. > > Some clams live 500 years (off Iceland) without our angst. My ideal > > aliens will have a rational hatred of soap opera. > > > > On 24 Oct, 16:23, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that Human history shows that it is very hard to break out of > >> 'modes of thought' that eon, geography and culture instill into us. > How > >> hard then to reason as a non Earthling would? I think the only viable > >> answer to your question is to say, I don't know. > >> > >> Perhaps if we could get into the psyches of some of the other creatures > >> that we share this planet with, we may find, or not, some similarities. > It > >> is an interesting question to ponder though. Does having > >> a consciousness at a level sufficient enough to > >> claim intelligence, inevitably lead to the asking of similar questions? > >> Elephants, who I do belive to show a certain standard of > >> emotional understanding and intelligence, do they ask 'Life! What's it > all > >> about?' > >> > >> On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 12:19:42 UTC+1, William L. Houts William > L. > >> Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> All right, I just wanted to run this by you guys. I know it seems I'm > >>> always rattlling on about aliens, but they're really a stand in for, > >>> well, for a lot of things. Anyway, I've been on Facebook and recently > >>> made a status report commenting on the conversation we had going on > here > >>> about hypothetical aliens and what they might or might not want from > >>> us. And I was making the point that I made here: that said aliens > will > >>> turn out to be just as befuddled by it all as we are, and are probably > >>> in no position to give us the goods on life's mysteries, or even make > a > >>> good cocktail. > >>> Now, my friend Matt, who is very smart but also very bitchy, put forth > >>> Professor Hawking's notion: that we'd better keep our heads down low, > >>> because history tells us that when a more technologically advanced > >>> species meets a less developed one, the results are usually horrible > for > >>> the latter. I replied that yes, this does seem to be the pattern in > >>> Earth history. But, I went on, races which manage to break the > >>> lightspeed barrier are going to have better things to do than enslave > 7 > >>> billion people, or even mistreat them very much. Their energy > problems, > >>> I said more or less, will have been solved to such an extent that they > >>> won't have to vampirize us. Matt made it clear that he thought I was > >>> being terrifically naive. > >>> Now, Mat is quickly becoming a sour old queen, but I want to know: > with > >>> whom would you agree? Or is there a third answer which I haven't > >>> proposed here? > >>> --Bill > >>> -- > >>> "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead > >>> and boy are my arms tired." > > > -- > "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead > and boy are my arms tired." > > --
