First contact ouchies or why did they do that?"

[ordinary_guy]

I seldom shy from cheeky humor (though it leaves me feeling a little flushed).<br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Aw, you're behind the times. Scat! Go run away! Trot along now... <br /><br />Loosely speaking...<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />I was inspired by that old Santana song. I think the lyrics went something like:<br /><br /><i>"I ain't got no potty – so I keep Depends on..."</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p style="font:normalnormalnormal12px/normalTimes;margin:0px"><strong>Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.</strong></p> <p style="font:normalnormalnormal12px/normalTimes;margin:0px">-Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)</p> </div>

 

[twilight1958]

How about toilets? What if the native's potties are made for creatures drastically physically diff from us? Or what if they dont potty at all? Maybe we are behind (hehe) in the depends race? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vogon13]

I had posted hear long ago about about genetically modifying humans to be able to consume any organic material and to process all food stuffs to CO2 and water vapor.<br /><br />Our descendants may not have to poo very often, if at all . . . . <br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[twilight1958]

Vogon, that would be most convenient for truck drivers <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Kalstang]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>How about toilets?<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />No offense is meant here to women but....Send men. At least then they can just go find thier version of a tree <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#ffff00"><p><font color="#3366ff">I have an answer for everything...you may not like the answer or it may not satisfy your curiosity..but it will still be an answer.</font> <br /><font color="#ff0000">"Imagination is more important then Knowledge" ~Albert Einstien~</font> <br /><font color="#cc99ff">Guns dont kill people. People kill people</font>.</p></font><p><font color="#ff6600">Solar System</font></p> </div>

 

[superluminal]

RE: first contact: <br /><br />In reply to:<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />{Hopefully, I wont be tested on this soon}<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />OOh! Test me! Test me! <br /><br />_________________________________________<br /><br />OK then! This test from a Galdarian is beginning to occur along the present time line.<br /><br />Galdarian.<br /><br />Galdarian definition = A single twin sex being, that has just landed ( it's) huge kilometer diameter ship discretely on a huge flat mountain top somewhere in the Colorado Mountains. <br /><br />You ( a loner Earthling ) have been camping half way up on the side of the same mountain that this lone Galdarian has just landed on.<br /><br />Being the closest witness to the scene, it appears from your perspective that a huge controlled fire meteor has crash landed approx. 2000 feet above you and that the once flat mountain top now has a huge pink ping pong ball resting peacefully on it's once flat peak.<br /><br />You (the lone earthling) climb up higher in the cold black starry night thin atmosphere until you exhaustingly reach the edge of the flat summit where the humongous pink ship sits steaming in the early morning eastern twilight.<br /><br />The single being inside is about to depart from it's ship but before it does, let me equate some some facts about Galdaria the home planet.<br /><br />On Galdaria (it's) single meter measurement equates to approx. ten Earth meters.<br /><br />It (the alien) has a single meter long (10 meters Earth measurement) protrusion trunk with three equal spaced three earth meter long claws for manipulations.<br /><br />It's math system is based on a system of three's and every time a group of three is totaled, the group is represented by a zero and the 1 group of three is carried over into the next column. <br /> In other words, ( 2+1=10) <br /> <br />The do <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><br /><strong><font size="3" color="#3366ff">Columbia and Challenger </font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="3" color="#3366ff">Starships of Heroes</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

"...err...got any Grey Poupon?" <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[ordinary_guy]

<i>Yevaud:</i> As I long don't have any brown Poupon my shoes, I'm doing alright...<br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>1= What then? would be your first words of wisdom to represent yourself and fellow species from Planet Earth ??? <br /><br />2= What would be the first response from the Galdarian from your nervous first words of wisdom?<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />I'd have to assume that I wouldn't know these Galdarian factoids before the meeting, but they do make interesting background...<br /><br />Okay, lessee... giant fireball (a little under half mile wide) winds up dropping onto a mountiantop. Whoa. How big was the Chicxulub meteor? The fact that the landing hasn't blown away the countryside (or even sparked a fire or two) says this is starting out to be a pretty good day.<br /><br />I climb up (fully expecting an armada of helicopters with men in environment suits to beat me to it), I still make the crest before any of my fellow earthlings. I find Martha Stewart's Spheroid just-under-half-a-mile-long space ship. First thing I do, just in case, is call "dibs."<br /><br />I see a cargo door open... and discover it's the crew door. Whoops. Out steps a 90 meter creature, but I'm going to assume that it's not 90-meters wide (or similar – that would've been mentioned). It's reasonable to assume that Godzilla up there is probably used to a much lower gravity and isn't going to feel all that great on our planet (just to stand up, he/she/it[?] is probably wearing some type of powered assist suit).<br /><br />Since I survived the approach of the fireball (wahoo!), I can safely assume that the giant creature wouldn't much phase me at this point – and my shorts would've been changed back at the campsite before cresting the mountain.<br /><br />Since it's going to be a logistical challenge just to shake hands (and that while my voice can carry pretty well, 90 meters [minimum] isn't exactly conversational distance), I'll wave slowly and give a friendly shout: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p style="font:normalnormalnormal12px/normalTimes;margin:0px"><strong>Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.</strong></p> <p style="font:normalnormalnormal12px/normalTimes;margin:0px">-Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)</p> </div>