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From: "M@C TONNIES" <0212104@ACAD.NWMISSOURI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:19:53 -0600
Fwd Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:36:07 -0500
Subject: Post-human evolution and Little Gray Men

Have you ever noticed how decidedly posthuman the standard
"little gray alien" is?  It's almost as if there's a Jungian
fascination with the human physique after being stripped of
muscle, expression, ethnicity.  The large black eyes almost
correspond to some sort of virtual reality interface (some
"abductees" even claim they're removable).

Whitley Strieber's described watching frail, alien-looking bodies
"stacked like cordwood" stirring to life and beings walking in
lockstep as if operated by a single mind.  If what he saw was
real in some sense, the "aliens" might be uploading/downloading
themselves.  And the UFO literature is full of descriptions of
alien technology that appear to describe "utility fog" and
various nanotech applications (walking through walls, levitation,
etc.)

Many of the descriptions of flying saucer interiors could be
straight out of K. Eric Drexler's "Engines of Creation":
everything's seamless, rounded, without visible moving parts.

It's ink-blot, starry speculation, but the parallels between
alleged "aliens" and transhuman technologies seem more than
coincidental.  I'd argue that "aliens" have never manifested in a
"technologically impossible" manner.  I can see many of their
abilities at least hinted at in the transhumanist literature
available at www.extropy.com and other places.  I've compiled a
list at www.nwmissouri.edu/~0212104/trans.html.


From a folkloric perspective, at least, it's pretty fascinating.

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