Saturday, December 5, 2009

Of "Avast heaving!" or "Belay!" "Doucement! Doucement!" he roared. He waved his arms frantically and danced about in the bows of the boat. Perhaps the wind carried his words down to.

Not good. Not good nan. You never get to be a cop now. Now you resign I can't even hire you back on IntenSecure to work gated residential. l4aybe you get on with a regular square-badge outfit sit it that little pillbox in a liquor store. You wanna do that?' 'No. ' 'That's good 'cause you get your ass killed.
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With the past. Now suppose a young clan of Earthlings- not only humans but also uplifted dolphins and chimps-encountered such a vast ancient civilization. How would the newcomers be treated? How would we upstarts react? Too many science-fictional scenarios assume states of unexplained disequilibrium in which exploring humans happen to emerge just in time to bump into others out there at exactly the right level to be interesting competitors or allies. In fact the normal state of affairs will be one of equilibrium-an equilibrium of law or perhaps death. We may be the First Race as I discuss in my story "The Crystal Spheres " or very late arrivals as depicted in the Uplift books. Either way we're unlikely to meet aliens as equals. My second motivation in this series was ecological. What we're doing to our Earth makes me fear there may already have been "brushfire" ecological holocausts across the galaxy. The common science-fictional scenario depicts.
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