The thread of world events

[Dark_Raven]

I keep telling you, WE are the 'ancients' for the rest of the galaxy. We have to get off this rock and get busy.

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LOLZ. Humans are genetically enhanced creations of aliens, I believe a combination of ape and alien DNA.

[metadigital]

What humans have different from other species is the ability to change itself:

[Nartwak]

I keep telling you, WE are the 'ancients' for the rest of the galaxy. We have to get off this rock and get busy.

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That reminds me of a short story I once read. There was this fleet of aliens that went from planet to planet conquering and whatnot. The twist was that besides intergalactic transport their technology was roughly equivalent to that of the Conquistadors. The story ends when they invade modern day Earth and get shot to ribbons by soldiers with assault rifles.

Edited April 30, 2006 by Nartwak

[Atreides]

I bet it was the Middle Easterners with their AKs and the US that pwned them.

[taks]

i never really cared about the orion theory, though i did find it intriguing. more compelling to me is the erosion theory in the area around the sphinx. there's real science in that debate.

 

taks

[General Zod]

Well the Goa'uld are still active...

 

Led by:

 

NOW KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!

 

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No, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD.

[Musopticon?]

ZOD!

 

 

Edited April 30, 2006 by Musopticon?

[astr0creep]

What humans have different from other species is the ability to change itself:

 

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Nah. It's imagination.

[Walsingham]

I keep telling you, WE are the 'ancients' for the rest of the galaxy. We have to get off this rock and get busy.

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That reminds me of a short story I once read. There was this fleet of aliens that went from planet to planet conquering and whatnot. The twist was that besides intergalactic transport their technology was roughly equivalent to that of the Conquistadors. The story ends when they invade modern day Earth and get shot to ribbons by soldiers with assault rifles.

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That sounds like fun. I read those Harry Turtledove books about lizards invading with tech about our level now, attacking us during WW2. They have a stable and slow civilisation, and they really don't know how to cope with either human aggression or our capacity to embrace change. We capture and learn their tech and ...the ending is unexpected.

[astr0creep]

I keep telling you, WE are the 'ancients' for the rest of the galaxy. We have to get off this rock and get busy.

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That reminds me of a short story I once read. There was this fleet of aliens that went from planet to planet conquering and whatnot. The twist was that besides intergalactic transport their technology was roughly equivalent to that of the Conquistadors. The story ends when they invade modern day Earth and get shot to ribbons by soldiers with assault rifles.

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That sounds like fun. I read those Harry Turtledove books about lizards invading with tech about our level now, attacking us during WW2. They have a stable and slow civilisation, and they really don't know how to cope with either human aggression or our capacity to embrace change. We capture and learn their tech and ...the ending is unexpected.

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We mate with them?

Or they show Bioware the secrets of time travel?

[Atreides]

That sounds like fun. I read those Harry Turtledove books about lizards invading with tech about our level now, attacking us during WW2. They have a stable and slow civilisation, and they really don't know how to cope with either human aggression or our capacity to embrace change. We capture and learn their tech and ...the ending is unexpected.

We mate with them?

That's unexpected?

Edited May 1, 2006 by Atreides

[Walsingham]

We mate with them?

That's unexpected?

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*cue guitar and wowow peddle*

[metadigital]

I never really cared about the orion theory, though i did find it intriguing.  more compelling to me is the erosion theory in the area around the sphinx.  there's real science in that debate.

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Wouldn't surprise me ... after all, there seems to be a direct correlation between human civilization and deforestation (look at the Romans and what they did to Italy): so it makes sense to me that there was a civilization around before the Egyptians, busily deforesting North Africa.

[taks]

the whole desert thing was due to natural causes, though human influence probably helped, but it couldn't have been much. if there was a society 10-15,000 years ago, they had to be relatively small compared to classical ancient egypt - which was already in a near desert by the time of classical ancient egypt - otherwise we would have found more evidence of their existence. of course, ancient egyptians, the classical ones, could have done a genocide to their predecessors, though i don't think they were really like that...

 

taks

[Walsingham]

Plenty of African cultures (in fact plenty of tribal cultures) practice genocide as a matter of course. Maybe the Egyptians were slaves to whoever and rose up and destroyed their masters so utterly no trace was left. Merely the dry and brooding ruins whispering with sand in the depths of the Sahara...

[metadigital]

Only the Nile crocodiles could tell us ...