I was caught completely off guard...maybe even floored...when the civilization in question was described as being bronze age or even pre-Mayan ( if i heard right) as that maybe put into context their alleged prescence here, the connection between the colony and the things he used as evidence to their colonization and why this colony could have disppeared. It makes the things that manxman and Constance pointed out in another thread quite likely. BUT if this the way it went down it brings some more questions into play. Like how in hell did this Martian race get here? If another race took the time to bring them here did they just then leave this colony to it's fate to foster or die? If this race was worth saving in the first place, would not it be worthwhile preserving it and see to it that it kept going, otherwise what's the point ? Was there a implications that this colony existed in the guise under another more "earthly" civilization? Lastly, given this civilization was possibly Bronze age this wasn't a war, it was a massacre, a genocide. Who the hell would want to decimate a whole race that was still into subsistence farming? I can't see that they would pose any threat to a race that had hydrogen bombs, so why the overkill? also if it was mentioned i missed it but I'd still like to know what happened to this atmosphere, could this be destroyed just because of an H bomb the size of the Empire State building?
Again with the caveat of having missed the firdt quarter of the show from what I understood last night that this event this race just was gone in the blink of an eye, they seemed to be no mention of an earthly colony, did I misinterpret something from the other thread that these issues were brought up?
Okay, what he proposes is that this alleged race on Mars were very primitive, and there wasn't any Earth colony ... Earth barely had amphibians then. After the event that happened (nuclear?) Mars debris from the event then rained down on Earth. Meteors etc. bringing organisms from Mars to Earth. Some believe this then brought the explosion of life on Earth that Earth experienced.
Unless I'm completely missing something this scenario brings in a truck full of other questions, but then i did miss the first 15-20 minutes.Don were any of these issues brought up in the book? If so, please just say yes or no. Don't tell me how they were dealt with. If they were reasonably answered...However one wants to define reasonably... it would be enough to purchase it , if not I think I'll wait till his next appearance and email in these questions. I hope I didn't completely miss the whole point and take up your time here with irrelevant questions.
Yes, the book does go into these areas and I do recommend you read it.
Also i take it we can add John's name to the list of "alarmists"(?) regarding the threat of A.I. to humanity.
If you are asking if he thinks AI could be a problem, I believe the answer is yes, he does.
