Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 21, 2011

For a spaceship it sure is beat up on the outside.

It aint the years, it’s the mileage.

Is Lars’ spacship powered by farts? What do you need to eat to keep it running?

That spaceship is obviously powered by a 2-cycle engine. You can see it in the putt-putts.

Oh oh, we’re their herd…………..

Ya can’t fool me – the alien is just making it all up.

Hey, I got to meet your brother once! Years ago at a SF con in San Jose, CA. He was pretty fun to talk to. And I’m a fan of his books, of course.

Human-LIKE remains, not modern human. You been uplifted, monkey-boy.

Well, guess what happened to them, Danae.

Lars’s craft is planetary tuk-tuk. His moonhistory makes more sense than whats peddledhere in the south.

Mutineer’s Moon / David Weber

I’m kinda old to re-examine my concept of God and Creation. I know there’s an easier answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. No, a non-prime number is not the answer.

So, the politicians have pulled the disappearing act before after ruining everything. Maybe this time, the rest of us should find a new planet.I wondered why they were ending the shuttle program.

Those “putt putt” rings and Lars little craft are right outta the Jetson’s – my fav as a kid. I like it!

Oh, how revolting! Those aliens were doing it with apes and monkeys!

You guys are ignoring another possibility. They didn’t create modern man. They WERE “modern man.” That is, they were the lowest of the low, rejected and exiled by another civilization. Forget Australia. This whole planet is a penal colony.

Actually, it sounds like it’s heading towards Hogan’s Ganymede stories.

Shades of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Not because the moon is a spaceship, but because the emergence of modern humans corresponds with a visit from space travelers. In 2001 the moon also was the site of a black monolith that broadcast information to the aliens about humans once they’d reached and colonized the moon. We’re a little behind schedule on that accomplishment.

As long as the aliens don’t have a book named “How to Serve Man” – that’s a cookbook. (I think Damon Knight wrote that story – too lazy to Google it.)

The Jetsons I believe Baslim

This is the kind of plot you’d expect to see on Doctor Who.

Lew, it doesn’t have to be either-or, it could be both-and.

i remember an old sf story where the earth sent out a rat infested space ship, and the rats mutated to intelligence. the humans eventually had to purge the rats out on to a habitable planet…and recieved an enlightened realization of the origin of Man.

This theory sure beats the theory of evolution or the big bang theory.If one is truly scientific I can’t believe anyone can believe life came from evolution from the big bang. Considering how diverse life is, how many of them exist, and how some are different with one DNA strand….If only a dozen completely different species of life existed on earth then maybe evolution and life came from big bang is believable.

Anybody think that maybe Lars is pulling their legs?

cajuncrusher: That’s camoflage.

Specifically, the light years to the nearest body shop.

I wonder if Rupert is going to come into this story line. Anybody remember him?

So when will the Battlestar arrive?

and….is it a coincidence that when there is an eclipse of the sun, the moon PERFECTLY blots it out , leaving a barely visible corona?? does gravitational dynamics rule this to be so?…...just askin’…

Where does the Ekert fit in?

Perhaps the moonship was filled with telephone sanitisers, hairdressers, management consultants, and documentary film producers (and other unnecessary workers)?

Gary Sinise Mission to Mars. Only life started there and was sent form there to here to survive while the Martian’s fled the Solar system. Old Frank Herbert short story where a ship comes to Earth and the punch line is that they aren’t just coming in. They are RETURNING. One of the “NEW” Twilight Zone episodes: A Small Talent for War. we are a seed race that was developed and have let down their alien “planter” because we have a small talent for war. I think you can see it on YT I won’t ruin the ending. John Glover plays his usual threatening personage. Probably a few dozen others on this theme. by the way, it still raises the question about where our “makers” came from.

Modern Men and WOMEN, Jeffrey.

It’s a Skrull ship. The Skrulls have been secretly running the planet for a million years. Human evolution is really selective breeding.

So it’s been done before, and look at what it got us! Greed, poverty, genocide, Jersey Shore. But I do wonder about those who were left behind. Did society enter a golden age when all the politicos, warmongers, and corporate execs left? They lost the biggest pollutants in the gene pool, after all.

puddleglum excellent comeback!

Craig Linder, would you please explain the ending of 2001? What’s with the guy all alone in a room? Where were the aliens? What’s all that supposed to mean? And what’s with the big fetus?

I enjoy his work. Very entertaining. Please pass on my thanks for his stories and hard work.

hollow moon that came from elsewhere was also the major plot device in a space opera novel i read as a kid of 11 or 12. i forget the author (and won’t bother googling it) but it was called “the secret of the martian moons” and also involved the martians returning to their home planet after millions of years away.

Modern man emerged a LOT more recently than 1 mya. More like 150,000 years ago or thereabouts.