Otis Reed wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:31:25 GMT, no name <oobie@doobie.com> wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 04:43:13 GMT, Otis Reed <oreed@dontbother.net> wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:23:46 GMT, no name <oobie@doobie.com> wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:04:52 GMT, Otis Reed <oreed@dontbother.net> wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:50:34 GMT, no name <oobie@doobie.com> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:57:46 GMT, KittyKat <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

We are not all idiots to believe humans have to be reverse engineered to be compatible with anything particularly a space craft that is made of molecules, atoms and physically existing, since everything we know is made of the same properties.

Human beings will indeed have to be reverse engineered in order to use the
alien technology 'cause the guidance system for the alien technology is
their minds.

TommyKnockers ?

I have no clue what that is.

Steven King story about a saucer in Maine.
The guidance system required the pilot to plug in.

Didn't read it, but I have read of experimental
guidance systems using something similiar with eye movements.
They're working on similiar types of guidance systems, but they have not
come close to the alien's guidance systems.  The aiens' guidance systems are
run by thought.

Probly like the ones the Taelons use.......in Earth the Final Conflict.

And as a side note:  the aliens use nanotechnology to manufacture things.
They also use it to manufucture their own bodies. 

Ahh, nanobotage, of course. This implies that they would be more
machine than a biological organism. Can they still reproduce sexually
or do they depend entirely upon nanobotage for reproduction ?

The aliens can also
manufacture a human body and 'core dump' their brain imprint into the new
body.  Essentially this is immortality.

Sounds similar to 'the sixth day' a movie starring Arnie, you know ,
the Gov of Cal.

This opens up a favorite conundrum of mine.
If the aliens can  'core dump' as you say, an entire brain imprint
into a new 'vessel' would the self awareness, consciousness,
also be transfered of the original 'person' ?
Or would the 'new' me be just a reflection of everything I was ?

They can also manufacuture the body
of a deceased person and recreate them -- they're an exact replica of the
living person, memories intact.

Again, would the reconstituted person have the same Id, ego, self
awareness of the old dead person ? Would it be like going to sleep
and waking up a new you ? Or would the replicated being have it's
own self awareness but with all the old memories of the deceased ?

Scary thought...what if we run into a replica ?Could we tell if it a replica and not the original??? Do they have things sticking out of the back of their necks??? I saw something like that on the old version of Star Trek. Captain Kirk got replicated............
Ah....the plot(s)thicken..........!