tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post1513346054180574362..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #14154Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-81588767094467637232014-06-04T12:26:29.994-05:002014-06-04T12:26:29.994-05:00My great hope is that when the aliens come, they&#...My great hope is that when the aliens come, they'll find us delicious and save a few for breeding stock.Matte Grayhttp://mattegray.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-47890906725414034222014-06-04T09:59:35.150-05:002014-06-04T09:59:35.150-05:00Mr. C: Love the Tomllin quote, and – like you – ...Mr. C: Love the Tomllin quote, and – like you – I remember a bunch of stories from my teen-age scifi addiction where we-the-humans were the ones in the zoo, we just perceived the function of the cage incorrectly. We still do.Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-90810369009711599182014-06-04T08:42:37.436-05:002014-06-04T08:42:37.436-05:00my opinions -
a)why not close gitmo? logically ...my opinions - <br /><br /><br />a)<b>why not close gitmo? </b>logically speaking, it seems obama could do so - if releasing some prisoners is something the president can do if he wants to, then he can release them all, it would seem<br /><br />politically, of course, he can't - and frankly, this whole bergdahl mess is a puzzlement to me - the guy went AWOL after expressing his opposition to the whole mission (so he had more sense than the people in position to give him orders - but his is not to reason why, his is but to do and/or die, to paraphrase one of the poets of empire) - so why trade seemingly valuable prisoners for him? <br /><br />b) <b>is anybody out there?</b> i think, using the mediocrity principle, the likeliest alternative is possibility 8 in the fermi paradox article you link to, the 'zoo hypothesis' - nobel laureate doris lessing wrote some novels using this premise<br /><br />c) <b>snuffer the little children</b> - it's like lily tomlin says in 'search for signs of intelligent life in the the universe' [note the clever allusion to the previous point] - 'no matter how cynical i get, i still can't keep up' - the movie 'philomena' with judi dench was about these prisons for unwed mothers, but failed to plumb the depth of lies and cruelty involvedmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com