Soon there may be another...
And another. And another.
The question are: Will we ever get there? Do we want to get there? Why should we go? Don't we have better ways to spend our resources? What if we get there and we can't live there? What will we do then?
How will we go? What may we find? Does something or someone else already call this home? Who else is out there? Are they friendly? Can we communicate with them if they are out there? What if they come here first? And my favorite question; What If?
These and others are the questions that fuel science fiction. The questions that have made franchises out of Star Trek and Star Wars. These are questions that a host of writers such as Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, David Brin, Mariann Zimmer Bradley, Arthur C. Clarke, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card and Joseph Campbell have speculated upon in their works. I have been a fan of science fiction as long as I remember. As have many others, I have loved the answers these philosophers of science have put forward. As Douglas Adams has commented upon, perhaps we are not the only species here on earth interested in the answers to these questions.
So Long and Thanks for All The Fish!
I once saw this Hurricane Hippo cartoon where these aliens are shooting a movie titled "It Came From Planet Earth"
ReplyDeleteHurricane Hippo?
ReplyDeleteAnd his monkey pal So-so.
ReplyDeletePeter Potamus? Hurricane Hippo Holler was his weapon of choice. And his monkey pal So-So.
ReplyDeleteHippo Hurricane Holler!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about Hurricane Hippo, but I am for anyone/anything called So-so. It's a term I have applied to certain things - you're not going to get all the info from me on a blog comment - but I read "So-so" and burst out laughing.
ReplyDeleteSo, do you men know about Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy, Quickdraw McGraw and Baba Louie, or Wally 'Gator (the swingin' alligator in the swamp)? Kirk knew about Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, which renewed my faith that I didn't make these characters up. Some other kid saw them, too. Makes one feel nearly normal.
Meester Queeksdraw and the swingingest alligator in the swamp. of course I know them. Lancelot and and secret chimp I vaguely remember. Just googled it, it was on from 1970 to 1972. I was 16-18 and surfing every chance I could get so it doesn'r surprise I'm a little fuzzy about them. I am much more familiar with the Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
ReplyDeleteI recognize all those characters. With the exception of Lancelot, they're all from 60s Saturday morning TV, but I saw them as afterschool UHF TV in the 70s. Crappy animation, but the writing was good. Daddy Doggie sounded like Jimmy Durante. His catch line was even "That's my boy!"
ReplyDeleteOh, his name was Peter? Well, I knew there was a hurricane was there somewhere. The reason I brought the whole thing up is that the plot of that particular cartoon is an ironic comment (especially for a kids cartoon) about life on other planets.
ReplyDeleteWriting fast. Library closes early tonight, and I got here late, in case you're wondering about the mangled syntax.
ReplyDeleteI loved it when Baba Louie called the sheriff (Or was it marshall? Well, no matter!) "Queekstraw".
ReplyDeletePeter 'Potamus makes more sense!
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