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greenday1978
reply to post by Loveaduck
I'd be more inclined to believe this picture was real over the one presented at the beginning of this thread.
JadeStar
You and others have been so conditioned due to sci-fi needing to put human actors in alien roles that its almost unfathomable that intelligent life could take any other form.
Ask an evolutionary biologist and they will just laugh at that.
We could very well have evolved from intelligent spiders (who manipulate their environment quite well) or plenty of other critters on earth had things been a little different.
Spiders
cute, thing is...spiders can't effectively manipulate their environment, not quite the way Humans can, and your "bots" required Humans to build them...tell me can they build themselves. Conditions weren't different here, any you will eventually find they aren't much different "there" either.
winofiend
[ats]http://cdn1-www.craveonline.com/
not a bad show I thought too defiance.
Loveaduck
reply to post by AthlonSavage
There is another photo of a female, that has been around for at least 20 years
ZetaRediculian
Human feet are quite useless for manipulating our surroundings and yet great apes can use their feet quite well.
the diversity of the forms life has taken on this planet alone is enough base an assumption that humanoids are not the best nature can do.
thedoctorswife
I saw that programme. The two unaccountted (sorry its really late i cant spell) men on the launch pad of the rocket. The solway firth man is such a mystery. I dont believe its a woman in a headscarf.
tanka418
reply to post by ZetaRediculian
AS always, you completely miss the point.
But, I'll tell ya what...
When you have a spider or a bot (or a spiderBot) that can do what YOU can; you let me know..."K"?
The point is; out of millions of species, there is only one that has all the requirements to leave the planet.
ONLY ONE!
And, that one is still incapable of building its own replacement (so ya don't get the "bot").
AND, big surprise here; that "ONE" is Human. (jeez...go figure).
(oh by the way...if ya want I can write ya a "Spider/Bot"; they do kinda go with the Internet...sort of
And I have an absolutely wonderful HTML Parser.
draknoir2
ZetaRediculian
Human feet are quite useless for manipulating our surroundings and yet great apes can use their feet quite well.
the diversity of the forms life has taken on this planet alone is enough base an assumption that humanoids are not the best nature can do.
I think that's an evolution humans are more than capable of making over time, assuming the right environmental stress. Short term adaptation is also possible in response to physical limitations.