Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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I think I've asked this before, yet maybe I haven't: a one-time classic sci-fi trope (I mean within the 'Amazing Stories' pulp picture-book/magazine broad canon) was the proposition that aside from absolute scale differences on astronomical terms, perhaps our entire universe is nothing but a tiny transient speck under the fingernail of someone, somewhere, contemplating their universe: ie the postulation that under all circumstances the macroscopic always recapitulates the microscopic.
(In many ways, a cosmological case rework of de Morgan's surpringly-underquoted 'Siphonaptera' (not heard by me heretofore this century until its inclusion below)
NOTE: This thematically distinct topic has been spun off from the Pioneer Plaques thread:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...nting-humans-to-aliens-pioneer-plaques.66685/
(In many ways, a cosmological case rework of de Morgan's surpringly-underquoted 'Siphonaptera' (not heard by me heretofore this century until its inclusion below)
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
And the great fleas, themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
NOTE: This thematically distinct topic has been spun off from the Pioneer Plaques thread:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...nting-humans-to-aliens-pioneer-plaques.66685/
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