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  • Re: A meta question about the Alien Space Bats

    From Rich Rostrom@1:229/2 to pyotr filipivich on Monday, January 17, 2022 11:30:45
    XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if
    From: rrostrom@comcast.net

    On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
    If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
    pestering them for solutions to the problems they
    provided/caused?

    This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
    More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
    idea how it happened.

    Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
    to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.

    --
    Nous sommes dans une pot de chambre, et nous y serons emmerdés.
    --- General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot at Sedan, 1870.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@1:229/2 to Louis Epstein on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 19:43:37
    XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if
    From: dtravel@sonic.net

    On 1/19/2022 6:35 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    In alt.history.what-if Rich Rostrom <rrostrom@comcast.net> wrote:
    On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
    If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
    pestering them for solutions to the problems they
    provided/caused?

    This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
    More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
    idea how it happened.

    Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
    to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.


    So...no way to ally with their natural predators?

    The Alien Space Bats retconned their natural predators out of existence.


    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
  • From Louis Epstein@1:229/2 to Rich Rostrom on Thursday, January 20, 2022 02:35:34
    XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if
    From: le@top.put.com

    In alt.history.what-if Rich Rostrom <rrostrom@comcast.net> wrote:
    On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
    If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
    pestering them for solutions to the problems they
    provided/caused?

    This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
    More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
    idea how it happened.

    Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
    to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.


    So...no way to ally with their natural predators?

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
  • From Jeffrey Rubard@1:229/2 to Dimensional Traveler on Thursday, January 20, 2022 21:38:37
    From: jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com

    On Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 7:43:35 PM UTC-8, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 1/19/2022 6:35 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    In alt.history.what-if Rich Rostrom <rros...@comcast.net> wrote:
    On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
    If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
    pestering them for solutions to the problems they
    provided/caused?

    This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
    More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
    idea how it happened.

    Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
    to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.


    So...no way to ally with their natural predators?

    The Alien Space Bats retconned their natural predators out of existence.


    Oh, so that's how you do it!

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)