Posted on 06/06/2002 12:08:52 PM PDT by balrog666
Also, I would like to suggest that we add a Topic on Science on FR.
More seriously, read Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science. It will give you a new perspective on problems like this.
I loved Babylon 5 - intelligent writing, interesting characters, continuing storyline with ensemble cast, and very little PC horsesh!t. I also like Farscape for the same reasons. There's a lot more of the rubber-mask-alien costuming but they add puppets to offset it.
Babelfish?
Translator microbes?
Too many reruns?
In a complex world full of complex (and often struggling) food, an animal's mouth has got to be more than a simple hole in its head. It needs teeth, mandibles, articulated surfaces or soft, fleshy lips—the more versatile, the better.
And once these clever mouthparts are in place, many animals find new uses for them.
Evolution is truly amazing. Here we have a mouth with no way to get food into it. Yet it survives as a species for billions of years until it can develop limbs to feed itself so it won't starve to death. I suppose before it develops limbs it pulls itself along with its lips or tongue until it lands on food it can eat.
Science marches on!
GUY AT BAR Yeah, this guy digs me.
JOHN HURT spits out some of his food. They lie him down on the bar. LONE STARR and BARF look and react.
WOMAN AT BAR Bring some water.
GUY AT BAR Water my ass. Bring this guy some Pempto Bismal.
BARF Waitress! Waitress, what did order?
The WAITRESS comes over to BARF. She looks over to JOHN HURT.
WAITRESS Oh, he had the special. BARF The spec.... That's what I ordered. Change my order to the soup.
LONE STARR Good move.
Something is trying to push out of JOHN HURT'S stomach. It eventually comes out. A little alien comes out of his stomach.
It growls. JOHN HURT looks at it.
JOHN HURT Oh, no. Not again.
The ALIEN jumps out of his stomach on to Spaceballs-the Placemat. Some people scream. The ALIEN growls again. Then, it puts on a little hat and starts to dance down the bar.
ALIEN Hello, my baby. Hello my honey. Hello my rag-time gal. Sonny my pitched my wild. Baby my heart's on fire.
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With respect to Star Trek, the Universal Translator. How it's database had linguistic info on supposedly "new" alien race, I haven't a clue other than TV magic.
I will reserve judgement on their hypothesis until their sample size is larger than 1.
It sure is. Of course, you have use your brain for more than a paperweight.
Red Dwarf rules!
Besides there are others far more qualified to perpetuate the debate than I.
You're right! The only problem is I can never find it! I've seen three episodes...classic...as good as Blackadder!
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