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Offline DarkBasilisk

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Re: Contacting space aliens a bad idea?
Reply #60 on: April 28, 2010, 06:37:59 pm
I just remembered I had this...

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Re: Contacting space aliens a bad idea?
Reply #61 on: April 28, 2010, 07:07:39 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on April 28, 2010, 01:23:12 pm
Good guess...but not the direction I took.

Imagine a Neumann ecology. Presumably they'd start preying on each other.

Tomato in the mirror?

Or is that too cliché?
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Contacting space aliens a bad idea?
Reply #62 on: April 28, 2010, 07:16:37 pm
Quote from: Ghostavo on April 28, 2010, 07:07:39 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on April 28, 2010, 01:23:12 pm
Good guess...but not the direction I took.

Imagine a Neumann ecology. Presumably they'd start preying on each other.

Tomato in the mirror?

Or is that too cliché?

If...I'm understanding the trope right...I think it's a step in the right direction?

(This guessing game makes me feel incredibly self-important.  :nervous:)
  

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Re: Contacting space aliens a bad idea?
Reply #63 on: April 28, 2010, 07:18:53 pm
Quote from: DarkBasilisk on April 28, 2010, 06:37:59 pm
I just remembered I had this...
That's pretty cool.
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Re: Contacting space aliens a bad idea?
Reply #64 on: April 28, 2010, 07:33:18 pm
Quote from: Bob-san on April 28, 2010, 07:18:53 pm
Quote from: DarkBasilisk on April 28, 2010, 06:37:59 pm
I just remembered I had this...
That's pretty cool.
Concur, it was a very interesting read.
 

Offline General Battuta

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Reply #65 on: April 28, 2010, 07:33:59 pm
It was pretty good. Reminded me a bit of Vernor Vinge's best work.
 

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Reply #66 on: April 28, 2010, 08:53:57 pm
Enjoyable little read, that.
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Reply #67 on: April 28, 2010, 09:04:16 pm
Although it's worth pointing out it was clearly written by an amateur, and the punch line's a bit tired. But it's a fun role reversal of sorts.
 

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Re: Contacting space aliens (unless we intend to rape and pillage them) a bad idea?
Reply #68 on: April 29, 2010, 06:38:16 pm
Quote from: DarkBasilisk on April 28, 2010, 06:37:59 pm
I just remembered I had this...

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Re: Contacting space aliens (unless we intend to rape and pillage them) a bad idea?
Reply #69 on: April 30, 2010, 08:15:07 pm
Quote from: DarkBasilisk on April 28, 2010, 06:37:59 pm
I just remembered I had this...
Nice, I like it.
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Re: Contacting space aliens a bad idea?
Reply #70 on: April 30, 2010, 08:16:54 pm
Quote from: DarkBasilisk on April 28, 2010, 06:37:59 pm
I just remembered I had this...

Would be better if it were in actual text format, though.
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