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Slatz_Grobnik
03/17/09

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I always imagined that we're the only ones who actually care. No, let me rephrase that.

"Oh, so when you were screaming 'is there anyone out there?' to the skies, you were asking a question! Here we thought you were just being rhetorical. We didn't know that you actually wanted a response. Boy, do we feel sorry about that."

"Hey, #($(*EHNnb34, get this: when humans ask a question, they want someone else to say something! You learn something new every day."
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AmishJohn
03/17/09

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They're thermophiles, and are just waiting until we finish Qsdserku-forming the planet to their specs.
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bluehinter
03/17/09

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If this book doesn't include the short story They're Made of Meat by Terry Bisson, then I'm calling foul on the entire project.
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Hamsfork
03/16/09

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It's that darned speed of light. Can't travel faster than it, unfortunately.
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AssuntaCodrus
03/16/09

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Humans are both violent and ignorant. I'm thinking aliens show up, look around and then get the hell outta here before they get noticed.
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tetracycloide
03/17/09

@AssuntaCodrus: violence is, by all accounts, a requirement for any race to have evolved to the point of sentiance.
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jp182
03/17/09

@tetracycloide: which is EXACTLY why they bounce:

Gorblat: Wow, they are still killing each other in droves. Remember when we were like that?

Tordorf: Yeah I remember seeing something about that in our historical scrolls- Oh wait, is that cylindrical device producing a radiation signature?!?

Gorblat: I'm spinning up the drives. we can send a scouting group back in another 200 years.
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tetracycloide
03/17/09

@jp182: i find it difficult to belive that every sentient race other than our own has already evolved beyond the fight or flight response while we remain millions of years behind. it seems far more likely for there to be both us, races that have evolved byond the fight or flight reponse, and races somewhere in between that would still consider our violent tendancies 'normal' given their own recent history.
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lightninglouie
03/16/09

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Have you played Spore? Exploring space is booooooooooring.

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twophrasebark
03/16/09

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We actually encounter alien life every few months or so. Ships arrive, radio messages are picked up, alien artifacts are found, the Mars Rover snap pictures of extraterrestrial probes...

I have a whole collection of New York Times front pages from these events. But every time it happens, this one alien race in particular removes all the evidence and neurologically erases our memories.

It's really irritating. There was once a huge pKiii ship on the great lawn of Central Park for like three weeks. Then the next day no one remembers.

Anyway, those of us who do remember meet at Sir Harry's at the Waldorf on Tuesdays at 6 p.m.
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Jeff Alberts
03/17/09

Wow, that's the world I want to live in. Or already live in. I'm confused.
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twophrasebark
03/17/09

I don't remember writing that post.
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