[ExI] [Bulk] Re: Virtual Reality is where the aliens are

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:24 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>…*But I just can’t quite grasp the notion we are those people, the
> first ones to cross the Strait into advanced technology, and if we are,
> think of where that puts those of us special privileged life forms who are
> technology groksters…spike
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> Come now, just try to grasp the notion please.  What if… we really are the
> first and only technology-enabled species in this whooooole biiiiig daaaam
> plaaaace, right here in this whooole unimaginably biiiig daaaam time, this
> entire observable universe?  Gaze into some of the Hubble deep space images
> and just try to get your head around that.  If it is true, then just think
> of where on the evolutionary scale we place the exceedingly rare us: we of
> the astonishing good fortune, the ones who have access to these modern
> information streams, these life forms reading this paragraph, this
> sentence, this phrase, this this.
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### Pure science magic and poetry, this!

Rafał
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