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   XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if   
   From: rrostrom@comcast.net   
      
   pyotr filipivich  wrote:   
      
   > If the Space Bats did it, then wouldn't we be   
   > pestering them for solutions to the problems they   
   > provided/caused?   
      
   Their powers (and presumably their consciousness)   
   are so different and so much greater than ours that   
   there would be no point of contact. Also, they are   
   extremely dangerous. Even when they are not malevolent,   
   they cause immense disruption.   
   --   
   Nous sommes dans une pot de chambre, et nous y serons emmerdés.   
   --- General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot at Sedan, 1870.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)