Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Would God need instructions in a kit like that?

I have to assume that even the kid Gods are omniscient, but only Fugee knows for sure.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have to assume that even the kid Gods are omniscient, but only Fugee knows for sure.

Really? How could a goat be omniscient?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Adder

Really? How could a goat be omniscient?

You just keep working on the heavy rock riddle. Leave the important conversations to the adults.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have to assume that even the kid Gods are omniscient, but only Fugee knows for sure.

I was hoping God got instructions, because then if we could find out if em ignored them or read them, we'd know if em was a guy or a girl! Ha ha, get it? hahhaha

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I was hoping God got instructions, because then if we could find out if em ignored them or read them, we'd know if em was a guy or a girl! Ha ha, get it? hahhaha

That was worse than my pun.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

God has heavy equipment and explosives. I believe in an all-combustible God.

One with an Angry Fist?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

That was worse than my pun.

I have you on ignore. What was your pun?

[ltl/fb]

Originally Posted by Paisley

I'm happy to, if you have yet to order.

I can't figure out how to or remember how to send a PM other than by replying to one I've gotten.

[Paisley]

Originally Posted by ltl/fb

I can't figure out how to or remember how to send a PM other than by replying to one I've gotten.

Apparently, not me so much either. But I found an old PM from you in my box (insert random snide remark about my old, unmaintained box here), and replied to it so you'd have one from me.

[ltl/fb]

Originally Posted by Paisley

Apparently, not me so much either. But I found an old PM from you in my box (insert random snide remark about my old, unmaintained box here), and replied to it so you'd have one from me.

You picked a good one, but now my reply won't send apparently because you need to delete some stuff.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by ltl/fb

You picked a good one, but now my reply won't send apparently because you need to delete some stuff.

In other words, you were right, you do need to clean out your old, unmaintained box.

[Paisley]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

In other words, you were right, you do need to clean out your old, unmaintained box.

Done- sparkly and clean!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Would God need instructions in a kit like that?

To ostentatiously ignore them, all the better to prove His godhood.

Oh dear, stp.

[ferrets_bueller]

Ferrets notes that the entire Deity/Expanding Universe Issue was succinctly summarized....as most of life's issue are..... in Animal House (1978.)

Because I don't have Flounder Powers, or this Board's equivalent, I think you'll have to past the link into a browser.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2...nes.php?page=2

Yours metaphyisicaly,

Ferrets

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

One there are organisms, intelligent life doesn't seem a stretch to me, evolution gets you to that.

You need to define terms. "Life" does not seem terribly unlikely given the math involved. Once you start talking about "organisms" those numbers collapse a bit, because life as we know it, with discrete bodies that compete and cooperate and fuck every now and then, is far from a likely outcome a second time around. The precise order of events in the geological record won't have happened in those exactly the same way anywhere else. Our present condition was an outcome of a billion trillion coin flips, were even a single heads where there should have been tails would change literally everything.

I know what I think, and it's this: there is almost definitely life out there. But the chances it has organisms on a physical scale similar or identical to ours can be ruled out, as can several other quirks of our environment -- bilateral symmetry, communication by patterned disturbance of air -- hell, even being "organic" (deriving energy and accumulating mass through the rearrangement of carbon) is supremely unlikely. Billion times a billion times is a lot, but if there's a form of life capable of traveling to meet us, we will not recognize it as "living" when it gets here. And its intelligence will also be unrecognizable, because it will have evolved to make success more likely in a totally different environment.

tl;dr: Slime molds yes; gaseous energy clouds yes; bipedal carbon-based humanoids ¡absoluamente no!

ETA: And by "supremely unlikely" I'm aware of the scale of the universe, and I'm ruling out that the billion trillion coin flips all came out the same in one or more other places.