"C J Campbell" wrote in message
The Old Ones from beyond the cold, unfeeling stars know the
truth. We are not Spaniards. We are food.

To say that all of mankind is but a mote in the Eye of the Old Ones is quite
a stretch. Not to mention depressing as hell.

We have bootstrapped ourselves from the primordial ooze to become the most
intelligent species this side of the Oort. We have accomplished so very
much in the last few seconds of this geologic day. We have so very much
more to do if only we can survive our own stupidity.

Why, we have overcome our natural predilection to be a ground-borne
hunter-gatherers and have conquered a infinitely small amount of space
itself. Even people like Mr. Cambell can inculcate other humans how to do
that in mere hours! Dust motes my asteroid!

We miniscule "dust motes" may be the only self-aware motes in the entire
universe. Some scoff at such a presumption but the universe is still young.
15 b.y. old, we think. Just a teenager. Someone or Something has to be the
"first" to become self aware. Why not us puny bags of saline and carbon?

No, Chris, we are more than the sum of our chemical makeup. We are capable
of being so much more if we don't annihilate ourselves first or allow those
less intelligent than us to annihilate us. I have absolutely no doubt at
all that, given enough time, we will become gods or perhaps even God.
Perhaps we already are.

We think, therefore we are.

--
Jim Fisher