[D-community-offtopic] Paul Tyma - Why We'll Never Meet Aliens

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28:02AM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
> List seems to be a tad dead, so lets get a discussion going.
> 
> Something I read yesterday:
> http://paultyma.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/why-well-never-meet-aliens.html

Haven't read that article, yet, or this one:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/1834226/why-well-never-meet-aliens
completely.

> I find myself agreeing with the author, and realizing how much my view
> of extraterrestrial life is shaped by Star Trek.

The original Star Trek? Have you seen of those 1950(?)s movies, were an
alien was a slow moving big hairy thing making strange noises coming to
eat us? Mmmm, then again, Independence Day, is probably not that
different in the idea, just that our technology has changed for making
movies. 

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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X