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I love that guy's ideas. It's almost a given that there are ETs out there that to us what we are to chimps. And we think we're smart. Far out.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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The cycle of rise and fall of species, when played out on a universe-wide stage, makes it fairly certain that some other beings could mop the floor with the human race. But the Prime Directive says that won't happen. Ele told me this.FBM wrote:I love that guy's ideas. It's almost a given that there are ETs out there that to us what we are to chimps. And we think we're smart. Far out.
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Yay! Ice cream! 
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Thanks for your post, loved the video.
“I wish no harm to any human being, but I, as one man, am going to exercise my freedom of speech. No human being on the face of the earth, no government is going to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind. I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.”
John Maclean (Scottish socialist) speech from the Dock 1918.
John Maclean (Scottish socialist) speech from the Dock 1918.
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Pensioner wrote:Thanks for your post, loved the video.
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Without surnames this could be any old Neil Degrasse we're talking about here... 
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It's great, when someone like that, puts your own thoughts so well.
And entertains. There's nothing I haven't thought many times there. But I could never start to say it like that.
I've often wondered what would happen, if elementary particles and waves could somehow form a particle that was able to reproduce itself.
You could have evolution happening close to the speed of light, rather than the speed of organic reactions in water.
You could have the equivalent of our 4.7 billion years evolution happen in a week, and go on for another week, with entities in a completely different league of intelligence to us.
Of course, they would then send down their son to be born to a virgin, and annoy the locals.
And advise us not to eat pigs, and to cut off our forseskins. Obviously.
And entertains. There's nothing I haven't thought many times there. But I could never start to say it like that.
I've often wondered what would happen, if elementary particles and waves could somehow form a particle that was able to reproduce itself.
You could have evolution happening close to the speed of light, rather than the speed of organic reactions in water.
You could have the equivalent of our 4.7 billion years evolution happen in a week, and go on for another week, with entities in a completely different league of intelligence to us.
Of course, they would then send down their son to be born to a virgin, and annoy the locals.
And advise us not to eat pigs, and to cut off our forseskins. Obviously.
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