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One of my favorite SF stories flips this premise: What if human beings were the wise, moral, responsible galactic elders? And we discovered low-tech aliens who
by ekidd 12y ago
One of my favorite SF stories flips this premise: What if human beings were the wise, moral, responsible galactic elders? And we discovered low-tech aliens who observed:
- "Humans have such good self-control! They can resist cannibalism and murder so easily!"
- "Humans live for more than two years!"
- "Humans have time to learn more than a thousand words!"
- "But when you get right down to it, humans are remarkably dumb and unmotivated, compared to us."
…and most importantly:
- "Hey, can we get some life extension technology? If we lived longer, we could totally have an engineering degree by age 6."
Vernor Vinge, "Original Sin."
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Vernor-Vinge/dp/0312875843 http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Vernor-Vinge/dp/0312...
- dredmorbius 12y agoThe thought's occurred to me that perhaps we are the ancient Galactic intelligence.
- splintercell 12y ago> One of my favorite SF stories flips this premise: What if human beings were the wise, moral, responsible galactic elders? And we discovered low-tech aliens who observed: http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Star-The-Commonwealth-Saga/dp/0345479211 http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Star-The-Commonwealth-Saga/dp...