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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · Jul 28

Footprints in the mud. Thank mud. All praise be to mud. Without mud, we wouldn't know about the Cambrian explosion! 115K year old footprints from SAPIENS! or very similar foot to us, certainly no Neanderthal, experts say. In Saudi Arabia, but I reckon humans of all kinds have been making pond jumps.

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troycap.bsky.social @troycap.bsky.social · 6h

Pathway in the Garden

Thanks to my friend from Clifton, New Jersey for purchasing this lovely art print of "Pathway in Monet's Garden": buff.ly/5mQQiIx

If you are interested in an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email at [email protected].

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Must be my favourite one.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Most of Dune wisdoms may be borrowed or stolen from Islamic mythologies and origins too I expect, like the story line. Not a great fan of Herbert. Earlier authors and much later ones. Have you read The Gap Cycle, space opera like Star Wars or Star Trek but with a proper hard science fiction genre.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Man, I grew up on Kimba the White Lion. Who believes in doing good and doing right, Kimba the White Lion is the one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsQ...

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Being trapped on a friendly alien transportation spaceship with them didn't stop us from declaring war on them and they didn't think twice about using biological weapons, which the weird humans thought an offensive way of killing, as if there were different kinds of killing, which confused aliens.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Money went into another Star Trek or Star Wars movie I suspect. Fashion dictates the art. Would be good to see the great artists of science fiction given their due on the silver screen and on television. Damn, makes me want to sympathize with a computerized, unbeatable chess-playing, pacifist squid!

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Actually, in this age of science fiction (impersonators) in Hollywood, it's strange they never made anything like it.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

You can see they send out their own spaceships to collect their specimens from across the universe, send them out in three's, as they are the masters of intellectual species psychology too (miss the first, try and explode the second, catch a ride on the third? Humans did anyway. A Queen of England!

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Or it even sounds like Rendezvous with Rama, been bugging @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social to read that one for some reason, think he'd like it. They, the gods who bring together various alien species from across the galaxy, indistinguishable from far more advanced 'biological' robots, descendants maybe?

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 4h

"Let There Be Light" - said the computer.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 4h

No. With the Big Crunch at the end of all things. Does sound a little bit like The Last Question, by Asimov, at least, we are the aliens and can make out own stars, in vain attempts to slow down inevitable entropy and in a struggle again the last question, in which, outside the universe, was solved.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 4h

Least now we know another reason its surface is so fresh, for a moon. Meteor impacts might cause periods of planetary melting, even, sometimes, I would presume. Catastrophism for the primitive life that thrives there under the ice, but driving forward its slow, pre-multicellular evolution.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 4h

The President was busy playing gold with the Grays, who have a base on Enceladus, is what all that gas Casini saw spewing out was about, they had a leak in their alien habitat. They did find organic chemicals in the moonary sputum. There is defo. a fat water ocean underneath, with bacteria perhaps?

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe some smart earthling computer programmer recognises the trojan virus threat embedded in the robots computer matrix brain that would do this and tries to warn the President of the USA but is instead locked up in a mental asylum because its a secret program/he hacked the plans from the internet.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 4h

They would only require that they be able to understand how to build machine, they might even be fooled into thinking, but computer programs they build themselves are rife with hidden secrets that then turn that machine against its creators and sends out the same 'infected light-virus' instructions?

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

Reminds me of that politician mentioned by George Orwell in The Road to Wiggin Peer, when asked why he put baths in the houses when they'd only grow weed in them and don't shower anyway. He said, 'I didn't put bathrooms in the factory workers houses for them, I did it for me!"

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 17h

A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

I think we should start putting plans together and sending them into space, we not going to last long as organic things anyway, I'll give you that much.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

From a science fiction story my favourite school teacher told me, second favourite, biology teacher, impressed that I had recognised a native species of fern when he had stupidly thought it was some kind of grass (? really?), when we looked it up in book. Mathematics teacher favourite, the calculus!

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

@godfly.bsky.social @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social Intelligent species hosted light-based space virus! Things SETI look out for I suspect? Interesting idea, in a billions of years old universe.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

And send more plans out into space?

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

Haha, it's an interesting idea. One alien species, figured that they'd send the details of how to build a machine out into space, because they wanted to expand, using light, they would 'highjack' an intelligent species, who would use the plans to build the machine, that would then take over the civ!

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

Because their own planet had run out of food, they left. To not make it happen again they decide to plant and harvest human beings for food. World War Z!

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

Do you not think that would be an important definition? What if we met an intelligent space faring species who didn't understand they were the products of biological evolution and viewed us as food provided by their god instead, that would be fun.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 5h

Our civilisation is only a maximum 200 years, say, since we could use radio waves and would know an alien for what it was rather than a god, I guess, because we also know where we came from now, not a god, but through biological evolution like them, so, since Darwin we've been a true civilisation.