Stephen Hawking has advised us to leave well enough alone when it comes to signalling extraterrestrial life. That is kind of a let-down for a boomer kid who expected the Martians would provide our individual antigravity transports and mind-meld communications. In the meantime, I saw these fresh marks on the roadway beneath the skyway, and imagined the ETs thumbing (pseudopodding?) through their traveller phrase books, wondering WTF the humans were trying to tell them.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Hieroglyphs for the aliens
Stephen Hawking has advised us to leave well enough alone when it comes to signalling extraterrestrial life. That is kind of a let-down for a boomer kid who expected the Martians would provide our individual antigravity transports and mind-meld communications. In the meantime, I saw these fresh marks on the roadway beneath the skyway, and imagined the ETs thumbing (pseudopodding?) through their traveller phrase books, wondering WTF the humans were trying to tell them.
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