From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: ET (Spoiler)
Article-I.D.: watmath.2745
Posted: Sun Jun 20 00:33:00 1982
Received: Mon Jun 21 05:28:48 1982
References: pyuxjj.233

First of all, E.T. must be a little more than a child, or else their people
can build radio transmitters out of alien IC technology while still children
which is no simple feat.  (not bad for a botanist either)

The interesting question is:  is it proximity to people or a ship that give
this race its power?  What would be the evolutionary reasons for each?

If it is the ship, the ship must be simulating something from the home
planet, as necessary to the ETs as food to us.

If not, how did this evolve?  How did such ungainly, slow creatures evolve?
Could they fly from the start?  How?