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What does "PITAs" mean?Noisy Rhysling said:
What do you consider to be the most interesting alien race?
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Pain In The A..GW150914 said:
Urbandictionary is a handy tab for me.
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GW150914 said:
Q was one of many reasons why I didn't get into STTNG. Omnipotent beings who seem to have nothing better to do with their time than test the rats to see it they live up to their moral standards...let me add a new acronym to this discussion: BTCOOM: bores the crap out of me. Roddenberry had this unending fascination with the question of whether the rest of us could live up to his moral standards. If you shared those moral standards I suppose the question seems only reasonable. If you don't share those moral standards, if you are off by even a fraction of a percent, it seems presumptuous. I never cared much for the feeling that I was being preached to for what everyone assumed--and no one asked me about--was my own good.
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The last TOS I watched had Frank Gorshin as a White-On-The-Right/Black-On-The-Left who was oppressing Black-On-The-Right/White-On-The-Left people. It was as clumsy a social commentary as I had seen in my 17 years.Khatti said:
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Noisy Rhysling said:
Sincerity was supposed to make up for a lot in those days.
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The thing about writing about the Devil is that I want to see how the Devil's self-interest is served. Does the Devil not have to worry about eating? What does it cost a Devil a month to keep the heat on? How does he get on with Mrs Devil and all the little Devillettes? Does annoying Jean Luc Picard answer any of these questions--and how?
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I noted that it wasn't making up for awkwardness and absurdity. Jonny Quest was much better written.Khatti said:
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...And a lot more fun to watch.
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My first serious relationship in high school started when the neighbor girl started coming over to watch Jonny Quest. At least that's what she said...Khatti said:
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Archaea.
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Aliens?rollete said:
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Yes, aliens.
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I know of the microbes by that name. Am I on the verge of learning something new?rollete said:
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Maybe, but probably not.
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An interesting alien race... Help me out here.rollete said:
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Two interesting alien species in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" are: (1) A "hive mind" creature whose components are dog-like creatures who synchronize their actions through ultrasonic signals. (2) A plant-like creature with electronic devices to give them short-term memory.
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Khatti said:
My theory for superman's powers is that our universe is actually an enormous video game, and the kryptonians found a way to hack it.
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Old UK space comic zero-x had an episode with alien tobacco-like plants. Each had an eye. They were seeking to capture humans because that would confer the plants mobility somehow. The most imaginative detail was, the photographic (celluloid?) film on which the astronauts recorded the plants' images would come alive (upon being developed in the spaceship's dark room?) and attack the crew like snakes on a plane. The exact mechanism was not disclosed, so it was like magic. Now I think of it, it may have had to do with the film being made of essentially cotton fiber (nitrated cellulose) and the plants having the gift of telepathy.
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In "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", one alien was described as a "sentient shade of the color blue".
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He also had a very philosophical bowl of petunias.stevendaryl said:
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stevendaryl said:
Fair enough...got any thoughts on the plus and minuses of building a Dyson Sphere around a blue giant?
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how about the "Vashta Nerada" or even the "time lords" hmmmm i wonder if their are related to the
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All of Ursula Le Guin's alien races are great because she makes their strange cultures real. If I am required to pick the one I like best, it would be the Hainish because they are anthropologists who recruit other races to do research for them. See
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I like the Rikchick, mainly because of the language that they speak, and due to how they look http://dedalvs.conlang.org/smileys/2012.html
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The Vulcans.
They are enough like humans so that I can see myself as one of them. On the other hand, although they are not perfect, they are intellectually and spiritually superior to humans. Therefore, they are something to strive for.
I think much more advanced beings, such as the Organians, are fascinating. But they are too advanced for me to see myself as one of them at this stage.
My goal now is to eliminate as many undesirable human attributes as possible. This is one reason I am becoming interested in meditation, because it is indispensable for the Vulcan to maintain a logical mind. When a Vulcan stops meditating, he or she opens the door to emotion, which results of course in deviations from logic.
I admit I am still an emotional and impulsive human. But at least I'm trying to improve.
Nothing unreal exists.
Live long and prosper, humans!
They are enough like humans so that I can see myself as one of them. On the other hand, although they are not perfect, they are intellectually and spiritually superior to humans. Therefore, they are something to strive for.
I think much more advanced beings, such as the Organians, are fascinating. But they are too advanced for me to see myself as one of them at this stage.
My goal now is to eliminate as many undesirable human attributes as possible. This is one reason I am becoming interested in meditation, because it is indispensable for the Vulcan to maintain a logical mind. When a Vulcan stops meditating, he or she opens the door to emotion, which results of course in deviations from logic.
I admit I am still an emotional and impulsive human. But at least I'm trying to improve.
Nothing unreal exists.
Live long and prosper, humans!
Noisy Rhysling
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When you're no longer human check in with us.
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Noisy Rhysling said:
I am a transhumanist. I think transhumanists in general see themselves as continuing their development as humans. It's not that we wish to stop being human. We want to become a better human. In fact, one could say we wish to become more fully human, by living up to our potential.
It's not a binary condition, in the sense of either being human or not being human. I think we are on the continuum of progress, somewhere between the first beings we would call human, and what we can become in the distant future. Perhaps at some stage we will cease to call ourselves humans, but personally I like the idea of tracing myself back to my earliest civilized ancestors. They were human, but not as far along on the continuum of progress as we are.
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A better human wouldn't be human.
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One cannot become Vulcan by getting more like them. They would never consider you as one of them. That's okay, because they are not better than humans intellectually or spiritually. "Better" is so value laden a term right off the bat that we'd go nowhere with it. So, logically (ahem) your goal must at best be one of sideways movement. I guess one can define transhumanism that way, which is no plume off my back. Also, meditation does not lead to logic, or eliminate or control emotion. Not in my experience. Best wishes, and thanks for all the plomik.
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