Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:35:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <66e7935f$0$2752$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:35:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="32ff6696ce38bb0c4624127f2057158e"; logging-data="3474565"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Rgaw4Fv5vtOVRtwTzSVdM" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dhPI9GGmP+eeMeV4GsZk4NdlOFU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <66e7935f$0$2752$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Bytes: 2149 On 9/15/2024 7:10 PM, bitrex wrote: > On 9/15/2024 12:40 PM, Don Y wrote: >> This was one of the slowest reads I've ever encountered! >> Early start tracked the TV series -- more or less. >> But, then turned into a lengthy exploration of cosmology >> and cosmogony. >> >> So, what started out as a ~7/10 ended up as a ~3/10. >> >> But, some interesting concepts (that would probably have >> been better presented without the pretext of a "story") > > It seems really difficult to reason abut the potential motivations of > super-advanced alien civilizations, godlike artificial intelligences, and > combinations thereof. I don't think you have to be *sure* of their motivations/reasoning. That doesn't preclude your opining about what they *might* be. Or, the "remedies" available to them in the case of *our* presence in that universe! _Alien_ (et al.) posited one type of alien culture; _ET_ an entirely different one (with _The Fifth Element_ addressing both!)