Saturday, November 8, 2008

I'm not quite serious about this but... think about it.

Aliens among us?
A theory from the country filosofer

Aliens are visiting this planet to observe how civilizations always self destruct when they advance to a certain technological level. In the galactic past nearly 99% of civilizations never evolve or advance beyond our current level of technology. There are very few civilizations that learn how to cooperate on a worldwide basis to avoid destroying each other or poisoning their planet.
It is possible that we are actually the lab-rats for the aliens. We are short lived, easy to breed, and exhibit the inherent tendency to embrace self-destruction. If we ever expect to join the real citizens of the galaxy we must demonstrate that we can indeed become truly civilized. I expect however that a few samples of our race are even now being preserved to be used in the next experiment. Very few of us have the ability to see where we are headed. The Mayans could very well be correct: December 21, 2012 might be the last day for our current civilization.


Read Larry Niven’s short story: “What can you say about chocolate-covered manhole covers?” From: All the Myriad Ways

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