What if you lived in Australia? - Page 496

**Dr Pepper** · 03-20-2017, 10:21 PM

Still waiting for the explanation as to why left hand drivers need to see a psychiastrist, TM...........after all even your wiki reference (which has been posted before BTW) concedes that the LHS has a much longer history than the alternate-and predates the automobile by several millenia-not to mention that right handedness is vastly dominant across the human race (70-95%)-making the historical keeping left narrative logical

**bloke57** · 03-21-2017, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr Pepper

Still waiting for the explanation as to why left hand drivers need to see a psychiastrist, TM...........after all even your wiki reference (which has been posted before BTW) concedes that the LHS has a much longer history than the alternate-and predates the automobile by several millenia-not to mention that right handedness is vastly dominant across the human race (70-95%)-making the historical keeping left narrative logical

TM didn't say that. He said "whoever thought it up" etc. And since it appears no one really did, I have asked my shrink to stand down for now.

He's annoyed - he was expecting a big cheque.

Anyway...back to Australia...

**trailmaster** · 03-21-2017, 10:28 AM

Since we are all humans (maybe not the Australians: they might be aliens), we are all nutty in some way. We have been throughout our history. And maybe one of these days far in our future real outer space aliens will be observing us and say to themselves" These nasty creatures called Humans are a constant annoyance." "I think they need to be exterminated." "Then we can eat them and rape their world of all it's minerals and water!"

**blondifan** · 03-21-2017, 12:52 PM

We'll make great pets.

**effCup** · 03-21-2017, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

"I think they need to be exterminated." "Then we can eat them and rape their world of all it's minerals and water!"

Those "aliens" sound remarkably like some humans, and not at all "alien".

If this really were "far in our future" then I suspect there may not be many minerals, or clean water, left, at least so long as we humans continue our "alien" ways.

Perhaps we should get all the "alien" visitors to eat vegemite? I'm sure that'd solve some sort of problem... somewhere.

**trailmaster** · 03-21-2017, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by effCup

Those "aliens" sound remarkably like some humans, and not at all "alien".

If this really were "far in our future" then I suspect there may not be many minerals, or clean water, left, at least so long as we humans continue our "alien" ways.

Perhaps we should get all the "alien" visitors to eat vegemite? I'm sure that'd solve some sort of problem... somewhere.

If a civilization were advanced enough to build starships they would have the technology to clean our dirty oceans and then drain them, and they would have the technology to extract what ever they wanted from the Earth's core!

**Brian249x** · 03-21-2017, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by blondifan

We'll make great pets.

Not really, we are very hard to train and given to unpredictable out bursts of violence. Also, we breed like pigeons, rats, rabbits. seagulls and other vermin.

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

If a civilization were advanced enough to build starships they would have the technology to clean our dirty oceans and then drain them, and they would have the technology to extract what ever they wanted from the Earth's core!

The theory is that such races would have evolved to a higher plain, so they would not exterminate us.

Really we are protected by a couple of factors. First, it turns out that there is a lot of water in the galaxy, which is not surprising in that water is such a stable compound and composed of the most common element. Secondly, we live in a backwater of our galaxy. It is probably not worth their trouble to investigate us, or they have already checked us out and decided to leave us quarantined.

Notice the movement to resume believing the world is flat so we can continue to feel important.

**effCup** · 03-22-2017, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

If a civilization were advanced enough to build starships they would have the technology to clean our dirty oceans and then drain them, and they would have the technology to extract what ever they wanted from the Earth's core!

So: humans saved from themselves by aliens? Isn't that just old time religion?

**bloke57** · 03-22-2017, 09:01 AM

It's great to know that Erich Von Daniken still lives on...but what happened to Australia in this thread?

**trailmaster** · 03-22-2017, 10:22 AM

I don't believe in the "Star Trek" universe. I think life in our galaxy is rare, and intelligent life is even rarer. Maybe in this entire galaxy of over 200 billion stars there are only a handful of intelligent races, and maybe none of them have spaceflight. That's why we have so many sci-fi movies and t.v. shows. We try to think up what we would like to believe exists in our universe when in fact there is almost nothing out there. Anyway who needs aliens when we have Quokkas!

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03-20-2017, 10:21 PM	#4951
Dr Pepper Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 966 Thanks: 9,903 Thanked 8,612 Times in 962 Posts	Still waiting for the explanation as to why left hand drivers need to see a psychiastrist, TM...........after all even your wiki reference (which has been posted before BTW) concedes that the LHS has a much longer history than the alternate-and predates the automobile by several millenia-not to mention that right handedness is vastly dominant across the human race (70-95%)-making the historical keeping left narrative logical

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trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: ON The Illinois Prairie Path the greatest trail in Illinois Posts: 9,911 Thanks: 781,448 Thanked 110,407 Times in 9,995 Posts	Since we are all humans (maybe not the Australians: they might be aliens), we are all nutty in some way. We have been throughout our history. And maybe one of these days far in our future real outer space aliens will be observing us and say to themselves" These nasty creatures called Humans are a constant annoyance." "I think they need to be exterminated." "Then we can eat them and rape their world of all it's minerals and water!"

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trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: ON The Illinois Prairie Path the greatest trail in Illinois Posts: 9,911 Thanks: 781,448 Thanked 110,407 Times in 9,995 Posts	I don't believe in the "Star Trek" universe. I think life in our galaxy is rare, and intelligent life is even rarer. Maybe in this entire galaxy of over 200 billion stars there are only a handful of intelligent races, and maybe none of them have spaceflight. That's why we have so many sci-fi movies and t.v. shows. We try to think up what we would like to believe exists in our universe when in fact there is almost nothing out there. Anyway who needs aliens when we have Quokkas!