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04-26-2010, 12:58 PM | #1 |
Elitist
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Experimentation, just like we use mice and chimps.
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04-26-2010, 01:10 PM | #2 |
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I remember reading a short story, perhaps 30 years ago, regarding the idea of alien invasion. It seems that we humans somehow missed the elementary technology for interstellar flight along the way.
The aliens, bent on universal domination, landed their wooden spaceships on Earth, dropped the gang planks, and stormed out to open fire with their cannons and matchlocks against humans with recoilless rifles, M-16s. , and tanks.
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04-26-2010, 01:12 PM | #3 | |
Hold mah beer!
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04-26-2010, 01:16 PM | #4 |
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Lizard and feline pirate aliens, IIRC. I'll have to dig up the book.
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04-26-2010, 01:20 PM | #5 |
Let's do another U-turn
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Hawking just described every alien sci-fi movie ever made. What's his fucking point?
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04-26-2010, 01:43 PM | #6 |
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04-26-2010, 03:55 PM | #7 |
I give Squids a bad name
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Better make some friends with Ninja Aliens.
Or we could just sick our illegal aliens on them. They'll wake up to have their jobs taken and ray guns jacked.
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04-26-2010, 01:23 PM | #8 |
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Fear mongering?
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04-26-2010, 03:19 PM | #9 |
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I don't think many gas giants contain water, nor do they have any metals until you go thousands of miles down into them.
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04-26-2010, 03:22 PM | #10 |
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Asteroids for metals. Gas giants for methane, which is CH4, or mine the Ooort Cloud for methane ice/carbon dioxide. Solar, fission, and fusion for power. You never really need to make planet-fall.
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