Posted on 09/14/2017 9:58:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Rare View Captured of Rings Around Uranus
https://www.space.com/4266-rare-view-captured-rings-uranus.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Rings+Around+Uranus+site:freerepublic.com
sidebar:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1435997/posts?page=43#43
We don’t want these aliens, let’s build a sphere.
“we’re essentially sending out a beacon that says “ATTACK HERE.”
Yup. That’s exactly what we’re doing.
~~~~~~~
All lifeforms as we know them are opportunists. Predation isn’t just lions mauling gazelles on the savanah, it’s trees crowding out other threes to exploit sunlight and watershed or microbes switching from breaking down organic compounds to finding parasitic hosts. You intentionally make yourself known, you’re probably not getting the attention of anything benevolent.
Best summation ever.
DATELINE 2067:
“Chancellor Barron Trump, as a part of his ‘Make Earth Great Again’ campaign (MEGA), proposed the deployment of the Border Force-Field ”
A message to aliens? Is it in Spanish, and from the Democratic party?
You know, I enjoy Turtledove’s books. But when all of civilization and human life is at stake in dealing with an alien race, I’m not really prepared to wager everything on what one (rather talented) sci-fi writer has proposed in one of his books - that they’ll be coming at us with muskets.
No, I say that we just STFU. The best possible strategy would be to switch everything to communications that DON’T get beamed into space...and, just before shutting off the last radio and TV signals, have a false scenario of a devastating nuclear war sent out...that the planet is completely irradiated, poisoned, etc., so that anyone wanting to come here will decide that it isn’t worth it.
He doesn’t suggest that we wager everything that we are on that. Nobody does. He is cautioning against assumptions made on, literally, no data at all- and I agree with that.
That said, prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Nice to bump into another Turtledove fan.
My suggestion is sending a number....3.14 etc etc
They’ll come expecting to be fed... pi.
Just keep repeat broadcast playing Adele's "Hello" cut until they answer.
Hello, it's me
I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet
To go over everything
They say that time's supposed to heal ya
But I ain't done much healing
Hello, can you hear me
I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be
When we were younger and free
I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet
There's such a difference between us
And a million miles
Hello from the other side
I must have called a thousand times
To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done
But when I call you never seem to be home
Hello from the outside
At least I can say that I've tried
To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart
But it don't matter it clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore
Hello, how are you?
It's so typical of me to talk about myself I'm sorry
I hope that you're well
Did you ever make it out of that town where nothing ever happened
It's no secret that the both of us
Are running out of time
So hello from the other side
I must have called a thousand times
To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done
But when I call you never seem to be home
Hello from the outside
At least I can say that I've tried
To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart
But it don't matter it clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore
Ooooohh, anymore
Ooooohh, anymore
Ooooohh, anymore
Anymore
Hello from the other side
I must have called a thousand times
To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done
But when I call you never seem to be home
Hello from the outside
At least I can say that I've tried
To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart
But it don't matter it clearly doesn't tear you apart anymore
Either that, or half-animal unintelligent underground mutants. And when they are depicted as 'vastly superior' the male alien messengers almost always appear to be gay or even transgender.
In case anyone was wondering, this is from the episode "Arena", where he takes on 'Gorn'...
And, for the record, he and 'Gorn', all these years later, are apparently still going at it.
We are naive to assume intelligent life necessarily has our values of humanity.
We may be attracting superior intelligent life with superior technology, only to find the hard way that they have all the compassion and empathy of a black widow spider or a great white shark.
Love that quote in your tagline, btw...
“They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards”- Gen Creighton William Abramsp
OKAY ! Good One .....
H$ll, the Democrats don't even have our values of humanity.
And, if they are sain or know what is good for them, will stay away.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.