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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.173027.2750@spdcc.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:30:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov23.173027.2750
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- thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
- >rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
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- >>glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
- >>>|> And this is just one example.... It goes on *much* further.
- >>>Space Aliens?
-
- >> No they're pretty hairless...
-
- >No, BBC, you're WRONG! It's just that the fascist twink-leaning
- >tabloid media ignores all incidences of hot beefy bearMartians
- >in deference to the trite, cliche 'sightings' of slim, smooth,
- >hairless aliens. It's looksism, pure and simple. (And do you
- >notice how even when the aliens are supposedly centuries old,
- >they're shown and described as 'childlike'? Ageism, I think.)
-
- Didja ever notice that all the aliens you see in
- all the SF (say, OH Star Trek), all the civilizations are
- only a few millenia away from each other in evolution?
-
- A few millenia is a drop in the bucket time-wise.
- There are stars nearby that are perfect pictures of what the
- Sun will be like in a few tens of MILLIONS of years...
- Considering that "man" as we know it has been on the planet
- what, 4 million years or so... what are we going to be like
- 4 million years from now (assuming the answer isn't dead)?
- No matter how creative one is all SF cultures end up being
- more-than-slightly humanocentric, if only so the
- viewing public can in any way indentify with them...
-
- One of the more interesting things about all the UFOanelia
- that gets tossed around is that the aliens don't seem to make
- any sense - as if something that "alien" should... :-)
-
- If/when we encounter something out there, it will
- probably be so incredibly different than we are that we
- could probably be staring t a "message" for quite a whlie
- and not even recognize it's there...
-
- Actually all things considered it's not such a big
- gamble - the hardest part is not assuming there is something out
- there it's how to look for it. The Senate bitched and whined
- about funding $10M for SETI (that's < 1% of a nuclear sub, BTW)
- yet the survey part of it is easy. The spectroscopy end of things
- is a nightmare - where do you start? IF we could figure that part
- out, I think we'd soon tap into the glactic version of the I-net
- in short order...
-
- BBC
- (rdonahue@spdcc.us.earth.sol)
- [no there will never be a "gaia" in there!]
-
- P.S. SETI is now HRMS and is intact ---- for the moment.
- PPS. Anyone who has a > ~1.5m scope in the southern hemisphere
- going unused and wants to have some fun - let me know :-)
-