Silouen wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message
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Starting to age? Gee, that would be terrible. Then you would have to
learn to cope with living under a death sentence just like we humans
do.

More like a death wish in some cases.
You are aware, of course, that every sean alive is at least three
generations removed from the home planet?


Which is how many millions of years?


Previous generations have all died either accidentally or by suicide.
Mostly by suicide.
It seems that no multicellular beings can jump right into a relatively
ageless existence.
People who age and who are close to death, and those who first learn how not
to age, eventually look forward to and want death.
Perhaps they think it will reunite them with loved ones?
Anyways, people like me who have known very little death personally, can
take it or leave it.
And I myself bend toward leaving it, simply because there is too much wonder
attached to being alive!


Yes, isn't being young and alive wonderful?

Lets see now, how many hundreds of years old did you say you were?

[snip]


A group of young children gather around one of their mentors --
Teacher: "What do we call a group of stars that makes an imaginary picture
in the sky?"
Student: "A constipation!"

Nicolaus Copernicus' parents: "Young man, when are you going to come to
terms with the fact that the world does not revolve around you?"

Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero.


And God never divides by zero. He's too smart.

That's why there are no black holes!


"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo
Galilei

"Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted
by an unkind establishment; you must also be right." -- Robert Park

Student: "Please Maam! Did you hear that scientists have found life on
another planet?"
Teacher: "What are you talking about?"
Student: "They found fleas on Pluto!"

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around
the Sun. -- alohacyberian"at"att.net

After eating her first meal on the moon, an astronaut reported, "The food
was good, but the place lacked atmosphere."

"According to astronomers, next week Wednesday will occur twice. They say
such a thing happens only once every 60,000 years, and, although they don't
know why it occurs, they're glad they have an extra day to figure it
out." -- George Carlin

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program:
your tax dollar will go farther." -- Wernher von Braun.

(Picture of Einstein in a police uniform with caption): 186,000 miles per
second. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.


So you will have to explain to us sometime how you guys always seem to
be able to slip past that traffic cop and zoom across the galaxy in a
matter of weeks!


The human body consists of three parts - the brainium, the borax and the
abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the
heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which
there are five - A, E, I, O, and U.

For fainting: Rub the person's chest, or, if it's a lady, rub her arm above
the hand. Or put her head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and
fall asleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes his faithful friend. "Watson,
look up at the sky and tell me what you see." Watson replies, "I see
millions of stars." "What does that tell you?" Watson ponders a minute.
"Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies
and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn
is in Leo. Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three.
Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does
it tell you?" Holmes is silent for a moment, then speaks. "Watson, you
idiot, someone has stolen our tent."

Guess I went overboard just a bit, Double-A. G
A good sense of humor is a sure sign of courage.
But a great and wonderful sense of humor is evidence of fearlessness.
There lies the explorer in all of us!

Sil


You're a regular stand up comedian, Sil.

Maybe you really are, and being a space alien is just your day job.

Double-A