Re: Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science

2009-03-01 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Deborah Harrell wrote:

 And as I'm rereading _Glory Season_ by Himself (thought I'd give it another
 go, as it was back in '95 that I read it first, and didn't like it much
 compared to the Uplift series), it too deals with aliens - um,
 non-genetically modified humans - 'invading' a world.  Upon second go, it
 is much more interesting to me; of course, it could be that I've matured a
 bit in the past 1 1/2 decades, and am less easily unnervevd by certain
 concepts...

In _Glory Season_, the humans _are_ genetically modified.

Alberto Monteiro

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Re: Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science

2009-02-27 Thread Matt Grimaldi

This was also covered by Brin in Earth, at least having an alien living among 
us...


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Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science

Aliens may be living among us, but we do not know it because 
they are microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry 
of Earth-dwelling organisms. 

As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known 
to science, the Earth may have been home to a second creation 
of organisms that make up an unremarked realm of “life as we 
don’t know it”, according to Paul Davies, of Arizona State 
University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life.

(...)

Full text: 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece

Unlikely, interesting, and already written in science fiction
(AFAIK, first by H.P.Lovecraft)

Alberto Monteiro


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Re: Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science

2009-02-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
 Matt Grimaldi matzeb...@yahoo.com wrote:

 This was also covered by Brin in Earth, at least having an
 alien living among us...

And as I'm rereading _Glory Season_ by Himself (thought I'd give it another go, 
as it was back in '95 that I read it first, and didn't like it much compared to 
the Uplift series), it too deals with aliens - um, non-genetically modified 
humans - 'invading' a world.  Upon second go, it is much more interesting to 
me; of course, it could be that I've matured a bit in the past 1 1/2 decades, 
and am less easily unnervevd by certain concepts...

Debbi
It Lives...IT LIVES! Maru   ;)


  

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Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science

2009-02-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science

Aliens may be living among us, but we do not know it because 
they are microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry 
of Earth-dwelling organisms. 

As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known 
to science, the Earth may have been home to a second creation 
of organisms that make up an unremarked realm of “life as we 
don’t know it”, according to Paul Davies, of Arizona State 
University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life.

(...)

Full text: 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece

Unlikely, interesting, and already written in science fiction
(AFAIK, first by H.P.Lovecraft)

Alberto Monteiro


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