Comments on: … THE COMPANY THAT NEVER CAME ….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:36:00 +0000

I spoke to my son about the idea, and said to him that such an advanced culture would prolly have about as much in common with Man as Mas has with a a Venus Fly Trap. He responded that we *would* have a common language: mathematics.

While insightful on his part, it was difficult for me to immediately imagine an equivalent mathematical expression to the concept: “Please don’t abduct me right now; I just bought a new townhouse!” |-)

By: Dick Pirozzolo

Dick Pirozzolo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Nope — they got within about 70,000 feet and said, the air smells funny, the water is dirty, the ice is melting and flooding all the good stores in Manhattan, there are too many chemicals in the food and then there are all this little metal things that keep bumping into each other.

Dick P.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:33:00 +0000

All of what you say is true but it all presupposes that any intelligent species will communicate the way we do. Why is it a given that other intelligence will recognize, and understand how to use, radio? Or visual or audible signals. How about mind-to-mind communication, of something else we’ve never even thought of because we don’t have the biology or intelligence to imagine it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:23:00 +0000

The Kepler spacecraft just launched Friday night. Its mission is to search for worlds that can support life as we know it: smallish rocky planets like earth at a distance from their suns that allow liquid water to exist. In about 3 years we should have some statistics on how common or rare earths are.

By: LunaMom

LunaMom — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:06:00 +0000

Reminds me of the old Twilight Zone episode: To Serve Man

A race of aliens known as the Kanamits lands on Earth and promises to be nothing but helpful to the cause of humanity. Initially wary of the intentions of such a highly advanced race, even the most skeptical humans are convinced when their code-breakers begin to translate one of the Kanamit's books, with the seemingly innocuous title, "To Serve Man."

Sharing their advanced technology, the aliens quickly solve all of Earth's greatest woes, eradicating hunger, disease, and the need for warfare. Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is supposedly a paradise.

All is not well, however, when a code-breaker discovers the Kanamits’ true intentions: Their book, "To Serve Man", is a cookbook, and all their gifts were simply to make humanity complacent, much like fattening pigs or cows before they are slaughtered.