Friday, May 2, 2014

Bags of water

Earth is the water planet. We humans are mostly water. If you've ever seen “Solaris” you know that water could have its own consciousness. We think of Earth as ours – as belonging to us humans. But because Earth is mostly water, it really belongs to the water. If aliens from space ever notice Earth and want to communicate with it, it might not be us humans the aliens direct their messages to. It may be the water. Will the water respond? Since we are mostly water, the answer is probably yes. But will the aliens see humans as the masters of Earth, the most intelligent race on Earth? Or will they not see “us” at all? Will they just see a planetary water-intelligence? To them, will we be nothing special, merely bags of water?

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