Posted on 02/13/2015 8:05:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
Meanwhile, scientists have learned what people would say on making first contact with aliens and it is not take me to your leader.
Instead, they are much more likely to ask the extraterrestrials for help. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence scientist Doug Vakoch said: One of the striking commonalities men and women, young and old was a message please help.
A sense that we are in a very precarious time in our development as a civilisation, said Dr Vakoch. Our technologies are greater than our social stability. So if we make contact with another civilisation that may be more advanced they may have got through the tech bottleneck and may have some advice, he said.
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He remains one of my favorite guilty pleasures. :’) So does that Ancient Aliens series.
LOL
Since Christ took on an (eternal) human nature to redeem us, it seems like it wouldn’t be fitting for God to have created other equally rational beings, also in need of redemption, to be redeemed in a lesser way.
Looks like a scene ripped from the Babylon movie Thirdspace.
Hey, it’s the *agenda* that’s the important thing, gosh.
There’s a theory that we see no intelligent alien (the space kind) life, because all cultures reach a point where they obtain the technology capable of total destruction, but don’t learn to harness that technology before the total destruction occurs.
The great filter, is what it is called.
So there have been many intelligent life forms out there, but they all end up killing themselves before they figured out how to get here.
All of it seems to rely on some pretty narrow minded views. So much of it is extrapolation based on our own human experience when there’s no good reason to believe an alien race would have the same experiences.
I’m not interested in finding intelligent alien races so its entirely possible that other alien races could mirror my minority opinion.
I’m also of the opinion that an alien race need not be wildly advanced, again because they may not think at all like us and may have a civilization directed in a different direction.
And finally, I’m interested in aliens we can eat and if an intelligent race thinks like I do, I don’t want to find them.
None of my aliens are as “social” as we are, and none are as antisocial.
It’s less dramatic, but more practical.
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It’s from the Mass Effect video game series.
Golf clap. Well played, well played.
"We like humans - preferably raw."
Then again, maybe they just need pet food.
And John Scalzi.
Quick Heads up - I don’t want to ruin it for you, but John Scalzi is among the most repugnant of leftist pussies, and spends his spare time tweeting leftist crap and trying to purge conservatives from the Sci-Fi Author organizations using petty leftist politics. He actually got Vox Day purged from SFWA for being conservative. Personally I wouldn’t advance his interests or career.
Castalia House Publishing (www.castaliahouse.com) is actually a conservative publishing house that does great conservative sci-fi specifically to counter the influence of the pink shirts in SF like Scalzi, and which arose because of Vox’s purging.
Scalzi made a big splash a few years ago, at least with me, with his “Old Man’s War”. I followed that with the rest of his series, which concluded with “The Last Colony” and “Zoe’s Tale”.
Those last two did something interesting; they told the same story (background) from two different points of view. I found that intriguing because I’ve done something similar myself. I wrote a book about another book being made into a movie. This allowed me to populate the second book with characters from the first, who were being portrayed by entirely different people.
That made writing the second story much easier, as I was able to picture the characters and sequences with little effort, and only had to let the story evolve to its own conclusion.
But since those initial reads, I haven’t been too close a follower of Scalzi. I had hoped he would simply continue writing interesting ideas and plots, but he seems to want to cast a longer shadow than mere entertaining.
Hawking making a fool of himself again. *Yawn*
Thanks for the heads up I did not fell he was writing from a left perspective, i did enjoy the books though!
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