Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!Leban%hp-hulk.csnet From: Leban%hp-hulk.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Cuteness -and- Why would aliens come to visit us? Message-ID: <3134@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 07:43:29 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3134 Posted: Tue Aug 6 07:43:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:55:54 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: BruceWith these two discussions going on at the same time, I'm surprised no one has made the obvious connection: Human beings are so unbearably cute that a visit to this arm of the Galaxy wouldn't be complete without taking one of us home as a souvenir.... > From: jcr@Mitre-Bedford (Jeff Rogers) > Might [aliens] take us as slaves, forcing us to create artworks for > them? Would such a scheme work? Would the kidnapped humans create > great art? Perhaps so, if suffering contributes to great art. Or would > they turn out trash? Would the aliens know the difference? Why not just take the art itself? It's much more difficult to get a work of art out of a living artist than out of a museum. (Assuming you have sufficiently advanced technology to make our theft prevention systems a joke.) Even if they did want to take art, I think it likely that their idea of art is entirely different than ours. Maybe their idea of art is a tomato soup carton. As if anyone could think that was art! [:-] Or maybe they would rather have one of those T-shirts that says "My fluxmate went to Earth and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." -------