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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat<br>Subject: Re: [ExI] drexler/sandberg paper</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 22:34, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>pharos@gmail.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ... Let's hope it doesn't tell the truth and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> let them know how terrible humanity is! ;)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> BillK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>...Which leads to the thought -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If we are contacted by an alien civilisation, what are the chances that they might be misleading us (lying) just as much as we lie to them? BillK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>What? Whaddya mean lying to them BillK? Consider that engraved plate Carl Sagan designed to put aboard Pioneer in 1972:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img border=0 width=389 height=307 style='width:4.052in;height:3.1979in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D67EE1.DCE00AA0"><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>That plate isn’t a lie, that was the truth! The lie was what we told the librarian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>She thought we were studying space science, when really we were checking out that nekkid space-babe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Sure it was a lie, but it was really her fault: she cut out the good pictures in Nat Geo magazines. What were we boys to do? Read the articles?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>