12-18-2016, 06:28 AM
(12-12-2016, 02:13 PM)BIAD Wrote: The thing that always will gnaw at me is, why have legs...? three legs that are for standing on the ground?
If a machine travels millions of light years or through unknown dimensions and arrives at a planet where it
is deemed to have intelligent life on it (the jury's still out on that one, by the way!).. why would the occupants
or the machine itself assume this adroit species would be on land?
Most of the crafts are designed poorly to travel in our airspace using conventional power and so hints that
the original home of these things doesn't involve travelling through similar air conditions, that makes sense.
But the legs...? Why assume all life that can premeditate, construct and wish to leave it's own planet exists
on solid ground?
Dolphins are the most intelligent species on our planet, but have no thumbs.
Without thumbs, they can't hold hammers, or light cigarettes.
Without hammers, they can't build starships.
Without cigarettes, their nerves stay too jangled to travel interstellar distances - they just don't have the patience.
SO -
The logical conclusion is that aliens are not interested in intelligent species.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’