Thursday, June 07, 2007
Extraterrestrial life
Both the London Telegraph and the Guardian ran reports that UK Science Minister Wicks has been informed that all but one of a carefully chosen committee of 7 boffins thought that not only extraterrestrial vegetation, microbes and the like would be discovered, but also extraterrestrial intelligent life as well..One of the boffins jibbed at "intelligent" and said "If there's intelligent life out there, they sure as hell know we're here." He was referring to radio signals having already reached 80 light years away.
Certainly I would hope that intelligent aliens are not listening to "Around the Horne" (a BBC radio series made less than 80 years old and described in my respectable home when it was broadcast as "a farrago of filth not fit to listen to" - a view which I still share). And I hope they will not be smart enough to eventually watch the BBC most favoured (Goatse) version of the new London 2012 Olympic logo, see Cory Doctorow for some brief details, where he refers to the apparently almost Brownite level of corruption of the aforesaid Olympics.
It seems that Wicks is some kind of science buff: If these aliens are watching the BBC filth, presumably it could be argued, rather anthropomorphically, that they will soon be sending out a rescue mission to save our souls, just as the British did years ago in Africa and Asia.
But I wouldn't bank on their troubling to save us, you know what allegedly happened when Jesus Christ (or was it really Dr. Who? or even 'touristguy') tried to do the same, indeed he was allegedly crucified so in those terms we could be said to have had our chance, and are lame ducks who must stand on our own two feet. Perhaps if the human race are just lame ducks these aliens will want to cook and eat us. But I have seen no signs of that yet. So quite possibly the extraterrestrials are decent Hindus, or something like that, which seems to fit better anyway.
IMO: I am sure that the above is all rather too anthromorphically considered and I would tend even to doubt whether radio waves are of much interest to advanced aliens, as to me radio waves seem like a technological fad of the last couple of centuries. Oddly I would have taken al Qazwini al Katibi or St. Anselm as being of more interest or relevance to aliens but obviously aliens could prefer the juvenile farts of Dr. Who. There's no accounting for taste.
Certainly I would hope that intelligent aliens are not listening to "Around the Horne" (a BBC radio series made less than 80 years old and described in my respectable home when it was broadcast as "a farrago of filth not fit to listen to" - a view which I still share). And I hope they will not be smart enough to eventually watch the BBC most favoured (Goatse) version of the new London 2012 Olympic logo, see Cory Doctorow for some brief details, where he refers to the apparently almost Brownite level of corruption of the aforesaid Olympics.
It seems that Wicks is some kind of science buff: If these aliens are watching the BBC filth, presumably it could be argued, rather anthropomorphically, that they will soon be sending out a rescue mission to save our souls, just as the British did years ago in Africa and Asia.
But I wouldn't bank on their troubling to save us, you know what allegedly happened when Jesus Christ (or was it really Dr. Who? or even 'touristguy') tried to do the same, indeed he was allegedly crucified so in those terms we could be said to have had our chance, and are lame ducks who must stand on our own two feet. Perhaps if the human race are just lame ducks these aliens will want to cook and eat us. But I have seen no signs of that yet. So quite possibly the extraterrestrials are decent Hindus, or something like that, which seems to fit better anyway.
IMO: I am sure that the above is all rather too anthromorphically considered and I would tend even to doubt whether radio waves are of much interest to advanced aliens, as to me radio waves seem like a technological fad of the last couple of centuries. Oddly I would have taken al Qazwini al Katibi or St. Anselm as being of more interest or relevance to aliens but obviously aliens could prefer the juvenile farts of Dr. Who. There's no accounting for taste.
# posted by uv : 3:07 AM
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