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Quotation of the Day for May 3, 2010"I suggest a different, even darker solution to the Paradox. Basically, I think the aliens don't blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they're too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism. They don't need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they do it to themselves, just as we are doing today. Once they turn inwards to chase their shiny pennies of pleasure, they lose the cosmic plot. They become like a self-stimulating rat, pressing a bar to deliver electricity to its brain's ventral tegmental area, which stimulates its nucleus accumbens to release dopamine, which feels...ever so good." - Geoffrey Miller, offering a reason for the lack of credible evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life. [http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/why_we_havent_met_any_aliens/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 15, 2010 |
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