February 2010
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vonnegutism
Frank Ballast once wrote a novel entitled Searching for Laboratories in the Cosmos, in which an alien race visits Earth to take notes. Notes for an exhibit at a museum on their home planet. The exhibit was entitled “Genetic Engineering On Low to Medium Technology Planets.” The aliens could walk the halls and see many pictures of a species native to Earth. There were hundreds of photos...
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Vonnegutism
Frank Ballast once wrote a story called Vortices of the Utterly Useless in which an alien race had inhabited a planet for billions of years. All the races on this planet, composed of different species, had managed to make peace with each other but still could not stop the environmental destruction of their planet. In an attempt to find answers, they decided to use space-time to gather information...