Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Imbecilic optimism
BBC runs a feature on SETI, which is whining about loss of government funding. Sorry, boys. You already have rich dickheads as patrons. Work harder to gather more rich dickheads.
One quote from a SETI executive shows the incurable imbecilic optimism of the sci-fi mind:
"When SETI succeeds, it will give us access to the entire knowledge-base of another civilization."
Oh really? Look at what happened when we encountered the Chinese civilization. They've been stealing our knowledge-base for 30 years without ever giving us access to theirs.
Along with thousands of human spies, China has been inserting software spies in our systems, which are all built in China. Pre-hacked for customer convenience. You can assume that everything you buy is a Pod Device .... and they don't even bother to hide the analogy, do they?
Chinese are more closely related to us than Alpha Centaurians, though I'm not entirely sure of that. Perhaps we should apply this lesson from our close relatives before we make stupid assumptions about totally unknown critters. ¶ 3:49 AM
One quote from a SETI executive shows the incurable imbecilic optimism of the sci-fi mind:
"When SETI succeeds, it will give us access to the entire knowledge-base of another civilization."
Oh really? Look at what happened when we encountered the Chinese civilization. They've been stealing our knowledge-base for 30 years without ever giving us access to theirs.
Along with thousands of human spies, China has been inserting software spies in our systems, which are all built in China. Pre-hacked for customer convenience. You can assume that everything you buy is a Pod Device .... and they don't even bother to hide the analogy, do they?
Chinese are more closely related to us than Alpha Centaurians, though I'm not entirely sure of that. Perhaps we should apply this lesson from our close relatives before we make stupid assumptions about totally unknown critters. ¶ 3:49 AM
