25 January 2011
Alien languages
It'd be easy to fall into the habit of reposting every xkcd comic I see - they're just that good - but this one is on a theme I ponder quite often, and really made me smile:
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For all we know it looks like this on every world and every plane. Each one home to a lonely group, and each group dropping the star-gazing before they really get going for more gazing at the navel.
I know what you mean about xkcd..!
And sometimes when I see how mistrustful we are of anything "other" and how little willing to understand, I wonder if it's a bad thing.
There is a lot to be said for restraint. But then if we're good enough to restrain ourselves, we're surely good enough to embrace the other. If we weren't good enough when the time came, we'd possibly learn the error of our ways yet again, and again too late.
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