Aspies For Freedom

Okay, it's obvious that the little green men are not from outer space.

They look too human to have evolve independently.

The only logical explanation is either that

A. The people who claim to see them are insane or under the influence (the more likely option)
OR
B. They're time traveler's from the distant future.

Now, I've postulated that it might be B for quite some time, just for the fun of arguing it.

Obviously:

The head's larger, larger brain, and eyes are larger and more complex.
No mouth or obvious ears, (green) photo-synthetic skin, telepathic device of some sort, it's obvious that these future-men modified themselves.

The also clearly think completely differently than normal humans do.

Now another thought occured to me.

Who has larger heads to begin with, is more likely to do something (like photsynthetic skin) simply because it's logical, and would take a flying disk back into time out of curiousity and damn the ethical implications?

See my line of reasoning?

And why would they want to take disks back to our time, when they have to hav records, unless they don't believe what those records say, nor the reports brought back from others, see what I'm saying.

And why would they not believe it, unless they saw human society through sane (by modern standards disordered) minds?

See what I'm saying.

And if you don't get this, no, I'm not particularly serious.  Play along.

I bet the green men also read each other's minds. They'll probably evolve by the time people start finding ways to live on planets besides Earth, so technically, they are aleins, but they evolved from humans.

Well, I'm thinking we do need an exodus when the technology's availiable.

Maybe the rest of the world will be too stupid to catch the potential of Mars, but if not, I vote Europa.

Venus would be even better than either, but take way too long to terraform, and as soon as we were done they'd grab it.

Or maybe we could alter ourselves to live in high temperatures and breathe sulphur.

The problem is that photosynthetic skin wouldn't provide enough energy to a large vertibrate esp. one that uses so many calories with it's brain (if they had black skin it would help, but it still wouldn't be enough). The green skin could be used for something else. They might directly intake chemicals via machines

There is a problem with the eyes. They have large eyes on the outside, but inside they would be so big that they would take up a great deal of space, so the large head size may not mean a larger brain.

We could assume that they live on a low gravity planet, given there weak frame.

Quintucket well that's alot like the concept they came up with on an episode of Aeon Flux, where Aeon assumed these creatures with no stomach (like a hole where their stomach would be), no mouth, and who communicated by thought were aliens. It turns out that they actually are a future evolution of human beings.

Aoen Flux?

Better check Europa for life before settling there. It would be a shame to ruin an echosystem and who knows what kind of diseases they could spread.

Keep in mind when talking about terraforming Mars and large moons that Earth's atmosphere doesn't stick around because it likes us.  Now, I don't have the numbers for the repulsion of gases, so I don't know if it would be overcome by the amount of gravity added by each gas molecule, but somehow I doubt it.  Rather, it seems most reasonable to assume that every planet would have a potential atmosphere determined by its gravity.  Obviously, a rock the size of Texas is not going to capture an atmosphere unless it is fantastically dense, and a rock 1% the mass of our sun will have a very hefty one*.   Now, I have heard suggestions that Mars' atmosphere was once denser than it is today and something caused it to freeze out--specifically, that the processes required to maintain an earth-like atmosphere ground to a halt, but remember that this is an entire planet, so restarting these processes will take a lot of fucking work if they are even possible.  The program cited plate tectonics and volcanism, so even if we had the technology, I doubt restarting them would be very economical.  Remember also that Mars still has less gravity, so the potential atmosphere is still going to be less.  I don't know if it is enough to sustain liquid water at room temperature, but I wouldn't expect to properly cook a potato by boiling it.  

So from where I'm standing, researching pressurized tunnel technology will probably be more fruitful than moholes and orbital mirrors.

Actually, I count that as a good thing.  When I'm four hundred years old, I don't want to be standing at the botom of the Valles Marineris holding my nose and cursing the treeless paper substitute plants up the slope :lol:

As for Venus, I got five words for you--solar shade like a motherfucker


*compared to earth, anyway

Thin atmosphere=lots more meterorite impacts

Personally, I think the idea of terraforming planets is overrated. It would take a long time, and, depending on what exactly you changed, you mighthave to expend huge amounts of energy and resources to keep it that way. Personally, I'd prefer a space station(within the magnetic field of a planet, of course)