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Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_

From	Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_
Date	2024-09-16 19:35 -0700
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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!)

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OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_ Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-15 09:40 -0700
  Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_ bitrex <user@example.net> - 2024-09-15 22:10 -0400
    Re: OT: _Remembrance of Earth's Past_ Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-16 19:35 -0700

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