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

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 07:16:22PM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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.

We could be in some strange periodic cycle? :) I remember reading this
years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

-- 
"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