2nd April 2010, 5:13 PM
I've read a lot of HP Lovecraft lately. He certainly knew how to make truly bizarre alien societies, with full histories discovered in very unusual monuments, designed around their alien bodies and really inhospitable to us humans.
Now it seems there may have been a 3rd hominid group alive at the same time as neandertals and homosapians. Interesting, though considering how much invented hatreds we can come up with with something as dumb as skin color, I wonder just what would have happened had they stuck around as long as we have, actually truly thinking somewhat differently at least at the level of a typical Star Trek alien.
Now it seems there may have been a 3rd hominid group alive at the same time as neandertals and homosapians. Interesting, though considering how much invented hatreds we can come up with with something as dumb as skin color, I wonder just what would have happened had they stuck around as long as we have, actually truly thinking somewhat differently at least at the level of a typical Star Trek alien.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)