Comments on: “ETs to Kill us over Global Warming”? Nah. Diamond suns? Now you’re talking. http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772 thoughts...rants...irony...fiction...observation... Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:13:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shaun http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-738 shaun Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:24:14 +0000 http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772#comment-738 It smacks of desperation, don't it though, for researchers to begin claiming ET's might consider us a threat due to our greenhouse gas emissions? But then again this points back full circle to ourselves: after all, evidence is mounting that we indeed arrived here from the icy core(s) of meteors (re: panspermia). Speaking of moot points, agreed with JS: are we not destroying ourselves at a more rapid pace than any extraterrestrial civilization could possibly have time to achieve ? Seems more sensible that they'd merely *allow our planet to be destroyed*, and either chuckle sadly or LOL hysterically, depending on their individual sensibilities. It seems more likely (if such an alleged civilization were advanced enough) that we'd be a classic "example" for their schoolchildren, to learn precisely what to avoid doing to their *own world*. But I'm the sort of guy who almost believes that we ARE the so-called 'alien'/ETs, ourselves. That we *might as well be*: For why *shouldn't* the DNA of which we are parts, be spread across the entire universe? It is a distinct possibility . . . Agreed on the Diamond Star... could be the subject of a new thrilling science fiction tale in the mode of Delany's NOVA... It smacks of desperation, don’t it though, for researchers to begin claiming ET’s might consider us a threat due to our greenhouse gas emissions? But then again this points back full circle to ourselves: after all, evidence is mounting that we indeed arrived here from the icy core(s) of meteors (re: panspermia).

Speaking of moot points, agreed with JS: are we not destroying ourselves at a more rapid pace than any extraterrestrial civilization could possibly have time to achieve ? Seems more sensible that they’d merely *allow our planet to be destroyed*, and either chuckle sadly or LOL hysterically, depending on their individual sensibilities. It seems more likely (if such an alleged civilization were advanced enough) that we’d be a classic “example” for their schoolchildren, to learn precisely what to avoid doing to their *own world*.

But I’m the sort of guy who almost believes that we ARE the so-called ‘alien’/ETs, ourselves. That we *might as well be*: For why *shouldn’t* the DNA of which we are parts, be spread across the entire universe? It is a distinct possibility . . .

Agreed on the Diamond Star… could be the subject of a new thrilling science fiction tale in the mode of Delany’s NOVA…

]]> By: Søren Heinecke http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-724 Søren Heinecke Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:54:16 +0000 http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772#comment-724 To paraphrase a title of Thomas S. Disch - The Stuff Our Dreams Is Made Of - To paraphrase a title of Thomas S. Disch – The Stuff Our Dreams Is Made Of -

]]> By: daen http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772&cpage=1#comment-706 daen Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:34:45 +0000 http://www.john-shirley.com/blog/?p=772#comment-706 The Diamond Planet (or as I call it, Planet Bling) is clear evidence that the Magratheans really did exist, and not as Ford Prefect said: "Magrathea is a myth, a faery story! It's what parents tell their children about at night when they want them to grow up to become economists!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Magrathea The Diamond Planet (or as I call it, Planet Bling) is clear evidence that the Magratheans really did exist, and not as Ford Prefect said: “Magrathea is a myth, a faery story! It’s what parents tell their children about at night when they want them to grow up to become economists!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Magrathea

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