Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:00:47 -0600 Message-ID: <5658B677.BB3@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:00:55 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: We're robots, programmed to get food, water, air, etc. References: <564F6B1C.6890@ix.netcom.com> <564F6DC6.127E@ix.netcom.com> <56511756.777C@ix.netcom.com> <2LednWuWaq0TNsXLnZ2dnUVZ5gCdnZ2d@giganews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-TPWbbmM+1Zcbo/E3HgxudwhO4ko4tePbgW6tu3SlUD4wwn225KJIDOiVcuEviRoKSm1Q3wMPw3Q1Opo!D3hsf8J2q7ympmn55q4TyPd2o1mhkJ8fNrWShz53koNXMrRvrDaY3nQ7uNsZlyDPQH2vrAt/B2Lt!VxkrPx0= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2392 X-Received-Bytes: 2504 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3870067814 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:279489 rec.arts.sf.written:427881 sci.physics:535952 sci.physics.relativity:370995 =?UTF-8?B?SMOkZ2Fy?= wrote: > > "Jeff-Relf.Me" wrote in message > news:Jeff-Relf.Me@Nov.23{4.35P.Seattle.2015}... > > Most scientists think "Life" requires liquid water. Ben_Jacoby > (benj), on the other hand, thinks something like "Star Wars" could be > true. Darwin showed how we're related to monkeys; fearing it might > justify murder and such, many reject it. Truth is: We're robots, > programmed to get food, water, air, etc. Like the sun, stars and > everything else... we consume "exergy" (energy that can do work); i.e. > we ratchet entropy. "Randomness" is ignorance, nothing more. > > *** Actually, it is SEX and BEER that motivates humankind aspire to > greatness .... > ... SEX because it feels good and BEER, because there are lots and > lots of ugly women out there .... Is that why I see ugy fat girls showing up at nightclubs one half hour before it closes?? ..and the ugly guys wait outside when it closes to pick up the drunk chicks that are on their way out. liquor is quicker..that is why God made beer.