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?