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

[staticsafe]

On 4/28/2013 18:54, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Nope, not the original series, I started with TNG. I might have watched
the Wrath of Khan on VHS, not sure.

Independence Day, the only redeeming factor was Will Smith, the story
was sort of meh.

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