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 _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
