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Answering Lurene's Question
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:01:20 -0400
So the kids are in NY so I've gotten a full night's sleep for the first time in about a while, and parts of my brain I didn't realize were malfunctioning now have blood and oxygen and whatever soupy hormones they need to start sparking back up. I'm working on my SyScan talk, which is due next week, so I wanted to warm up by answering a question for Lurene. ---- Imagine it's 2030 and we finally understand a few things about physics and manage to get our sorry asses off planet. We find life, of course, and on one of the planets with life we establish a base station and send you up there to run the computers or something. But the life is weird - it's brightly colored equestrian and its everywhere. You'll be holding meetings and in the corner is a tiny horse-like creature with a long multicolored mane eating a sandwich. Of course, because they're everywhere everyone just ignores them except when they get underfoot, like when you're trying to lay some cable to build a spaceport or in the occasional rare event that one of the ones with horns pokes someone or one of the "Flutter Ponies", which have wings, flies into an air intake and has to be pulled out (usually in pieces). So anyways, after a couple years of this you get sick of it and you pull up Wikipedia and you browse for few hours and maybe find a few specialist books on the subject and then people are constantly finding it weird that you know the difference between "Peach Blossom" and "Rosedust". And after a few more years of this, you find the pony creatures more interesting and maybe the Crystal ones have some conflict resolution strategies that come in handy during your day-to-day work... And not to draw this out too far (and stuff people's heads with even more MLP factoids :>) but that's why I know anything about ants. Because we call it Earth, but if you came here yesterday and managed to land somewhere dry, you'd call it Antworld. -dave
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