Tango01  | 04 Jul 2018 2:59 p.m. PST |
"One day in the far future, mankind will have to leave the house, and venture out into the stars to survive. With human population rising to nearly ten billion, coupled with more nations joining the nuclear club, and with our crumbling environment, the time is critical for us as a species to push out into the solar system to beyond to find survival. However, when we finally flung ourselves starward, we shall see change the human species in ways not seen since the days of the Cro-Magnon man and the Neanderthals, fracturing the future society between the people that went out and the people that stayed behind. Spacer humans would be transformed by the what Q described to Picard as "wonders you cannot possibly imagine. And terrors to freeze your soul!" into some of an alien species after thousands of years of space travel, colonization, and exploration…what does not kill us, makes us strangler. For the most part, this topic is about human-only galaxies and the genesis of this blogpost came when I read a 2007 review by Alan DeNiro who identifies the future of Space Opera themes would be mankind giving up their humanity to live in the cold void of space…"
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 Saber6  | 04 Jul 2018 3:48 p.m. PST |
what does not kill us, makes us strangler Oh, really? |
| War Monkey | 04 Jul 2018 4:42 p.m. PST |
"What does not kill you, makes you stronger!" Except Infantry, Infantry will definitely kill you!  |
| haywire | 04 Jul 2018 6:39 p.m. PST |
unless he meant what does not kill us, makes us stranger Quoting either Trevor Goodchild (Aeon Flux) or Heath Ledger's Joker (Dark Knight) |
| robert piepenbrink | 04 Jul 2018 7:02 p.m. PST |
The sign over my bed reads "that which does not kill me postpones the inevitable." |
| Narratio | 04 Jul 2018 8:03 p.m. PST |
"That which does not kill me… gets placed in the mail with "return to sender" scrawled on it. |
| Cacique Caribe | 04 Jul 2018 8:08 p.m. PST |
That which does not kill us better taste good in a wine sauce. Dan
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| War Monkey | 04 Jul 2018 8:55 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 05 Jul 2018 11:34 a.m. PST |
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| SBminisguy | 06 Jul 2018 8:44 a.m. PST |
Interesting read, but missing how truly alien cultures could evolve from human colonization efforts. I could imagine how colonization could involve genetic engineering to tailor human colonists for unique environments. This could lead to aliens based on human DNA but evolving unique culture, mindset, etc
. And over time, looking more alien than human, or giving rise to Star Trek style aliens. |
| Tango01 | 06 Jul 2018 11:09 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the Reading my friend!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Cacique Caribe | 07 Jul 2018 2:51 p.m. PST |
SBminisguy: "This could lead to aliens based on human DNA but evolving unique culture, mindset, etc
. And over time, looking more alien than human, or giving rise to Star Trek style aliens." There was an Australian post apocalyptic novel back in the 80-90s about that exact point. But I think the spacefaring version of humanity eventually decided after several generations that the human form was too restricting, and they ended up looking truly Alien to the poor primitive fully-human people back on Earth. I think they chose an inquisitive young loner guy as their "first contact". I wish I could recall the title. Dan |
 Legion 4 | 08 Jul 2018 7:44 a.m. PST |
We'll probably kill ourselves off before any ETs c/would … |
