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* Re: A meta question about the Alien Space BatsRich Rostrom
`* Re: A meta question about the Alien Space BatsLouis Epstein
 `- Re: A meta question about the Alien Space BatsDimensional Traveler

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Re: A meta question about the Alien Space Bats

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From: rrost...@comcast.net (Rich Rostrom)
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Subject: Re: A meta question about the Alien Space Bats
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:30:45 -0600
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 by: Rich Rostrom - Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:30 UTC

On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
> If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
> pestering them for solutions to the problems they
> provided/caused?

This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
idea how it happened.

Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.

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Re: A meta question about the Alien Space Bats

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From: le...@top.put.com (Louis Epstein)
Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if,alt.history,alt.history.what-if
Subject: Re: A meta question about the Alien Space Bats
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:35:34 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Louis Epstein - Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:35 UTC

In alt.history.what-if Rich Rostrom <rrostrom@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
>> If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
>> pestering them for solutions to the problems they
>> provided/caused?
>
> This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
> More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
> idea how it happened.
>
> Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
> to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.
>

So...no way to ally with their natural predators?

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: dtra...@sonic.net (Dimensional Traveler)
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Subject: Re: A meta question about the Alien Space Bats
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 by: Dimensional Traveler - Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:43 UTC

On 1/19/2022 6:35 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
> In alt.history.what-if Rich Rostrom <rrostrom@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 6/13/20 12:02 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
>>> If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be
>>> pestering them for solutions to the problems they
>>> provided/caused?
>>
>> This assumes we have any perception of the ASBs as agents.
>> More likely the Event just happens, and humans have no
>> idea how it happened.
>>
>> Or humans see them Do It - but have no more idea of how
>> to communicate with the ASBs than ants would with humans.
>>
>
> So...no way to ally with their natural predators?
>
The Alien Space Bats retconned their natural predators out of existence.

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dirty old man.

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