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Sci-fi Worthy of Malthus
Townhall.com ^ | May 1, 2013 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 05/01/2013 7:18:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: OneWingedShark

The 1980s film “Ice Pirates.”


81 posted on 05/01/2013 10:18:41 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: headsonpikes

Perhaps the Federation starships all had bumperstickers with Britsh Leyland logo and the phrase “I’d rather push a Leyland than fly a Klingon Battlecruiser.”


82 posted on 05/01/2013 10:24:18 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

LOL - sounds like “Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy”!


83 posted on 05/01/2013 10:31:37 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Army Air Corps

Ah, thank you.


84 posted on 05/01/2013 10:41:43 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Obviously in league with the aliens...


85 posted on 05/01/2013 11:57:52 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: MHGinTN
Professor Donald Kessler: We know they're extremely advanced technologically, which suggests - very rightfully so - that they're peaceful. An advanced civilization, by definition, is not barbaric.
86 posted on 05/01/2013 2:37:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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I was offering Stanton Friedman's argument regarding ‘extraterrestrial aliens’, an argument I happen to agree with. If ETs are as savage as we humans remain, their coming here would have long ago ended the human race as dominant species. Count on it. Even angels are not allowed to make a ‘final solution’ for that is in God's purview.
87 posted on 05/01/2013 2:49:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Kaslin
But humans are better understood as creators who've consistently solved the problems of scarcity by inventing or discovering new paths to abundance.

Sums it up, IMO.

I have wondered for a couple decades why humans in the movies were so busy scouring the ruins for crumbs when they could just re-create civilization. We're more ingenious than that.

88 posted on 05/02/2013 12:38:01 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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