Aki wrote:
EDIT: read through the thread. Anubis, you are right about aggression. aki, aggression NEVER evolves out. TO be pacifistic is to die, unless you are Top Dog of the galaxy, or everyone above you is pacifistic. And then, you have to agree...
Also, one point, you do NOT have to have any of those traits you mentioned anubis. You just have to have the technology. Technology can easily be stolen.
Also, if my post above comes off as angry, it's not.
Aww, c'mon. You mention Niven then you say that?
What 'bout the puppeteers?
Uh, did you read: "unless you are Top Dog of the galaxy, or everyone above you is pacifistic"
Puppeteers are top dog! They kick a**! The only thing know in the galaxy with more technology than they have are two races. One, the Pak, who are... extinct, shall we say, and, two, the Outsiders, who are pacifistic in that they have no reason to care what warmlife does.
calling me stupid for my... THERORIES!!!(look it up in the dictionary! it seems people are missing this KEY word's meaning)
Uh huh. Anubis, look, a THEORY has EVIDENCE. You mean a hypothesis. You are speculating. That does not make your speculations wrong, since we are thinking hypothetically here. But please. When you tell someone to use the word theory and look it up, for god's sake, boy, you need to understand its meaning first! Theories, like the Theory of Evolution, have much experimentation, documentation, facts to back them up, and generally evidence.
exact reason why sci-fi writers of this age are one of the dumbest, most unresourced group of idiots to walk the face of mother earth,
I'm sorry, but I take great offense to this statement. I am, assuming, by the annoying and rather pitiful shortening, "Sci-Fi" you mean Science Fiction, which can only be shortened to SF, ever. In the words of the Good Doctor himself.
Now, I hope you'll listen to me when I tell you that most SF writers are much educated than any other writer type. That is, writers of hard SF. Which means SF with SCIENCE. Theses people meticulously state what their grounds rules are. They know about physics, they know the mechanics of fluids, they know the mechanics of flight, sociology, geography, geology, theoretical physics. These people are on the CUTTING edge of things! They're not stupid! They're not uneducated! PLEASE do not say that.
Now I do understand you may have gotten the wrong idea about SF, by seeing or watching Sci-Fi. But really. While 90% of anything is crap, it is exactly the negative flimsy wishy-washy fulla-**** stereotype of all things SF that seriously degrade from it. And you know what? if SF was taken seriously in this culture we would be MUCH further along than we are.
Now, if you are slightly confused, know this. SF refers to Science Fiction. What you read is SF. What you watch on television, that crap that passes for programming, that is Sci-Fi. It's why it's called the Sci-Fi channel.
Again, I'm not angry, though it may be passed off as such.