wrote in message
...
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:28:21 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

wrote in message
. ..
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:44:00 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

wrote in message
m...
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

On Oct 1, 11:56 am, wrote:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:32:26 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch



wrote:
On Oct 1, 10:27 am, Frogwatch wrote:
On Oct 1, 9:38 am, wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OndG4b5M-Q4

--
Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service
-------http://www.NewsDemon.com------
Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband
Access

That is impressive.

Watch animals who are good at climbing and you eventually get the
impression that their minds are wired diff. They do not have the
fear
of falling we have although logic says they should. Clearly, this
guy
has little fear of falling but I wonder how much he has practiced
on
these particular rocks. Notice the white chalk on some of the
blocks
indicating a lot of use by climbers.

Whether it's familiarity with the terrain, a natural talent, or a
lot
of practice, I would have to concede that the backflip on the
vertical
wall is unnatural. I would suspect that very few people would be
able
to develop that type of skill.

--
Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service
-------http://www.NewsDemon.com------
Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access

We should genetically engineer people to have grasping feet. In fact,
I imagine that generations from now people who live in space will
develop such. They will have little use for shoes and will need such
feet to keep from drifting around while they use their hands.

That reminds me of a science fiction novel I read years ago, "The Mote
in God's Eye," by David Niven and Jerry Pournelli. It's been years
since I've read it; but, it seems to me that that in the novel the
human race encounters another life form that was similar to what
you've described.

--
Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service
-------http://www.NewsDemon.com------
Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access


I vaguely remember reading this in college... can't remember it though.
Maybe I should get it from the library....

I think that was their first collaboration. It was my favorite Sci-fi
novel until I read "Dune" by Frank Herbert.

--
Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service
-------http://www.NewsDemon.com------
Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access


I didn't like that book... the movie was awful

Do you read Science Fiction, Miss De Plume? I devoured science
fiction novels when I was young. I haven't read a science fiction
novel in years, though. The genre became too...commercial and
gratuitously salacious, as far as I was concerned. The last good
novel I've read, recently, was actually a humorous work by Leornard
Wibberley, "The Mouse that Roared." Dune was not a nascently
intellecutal book of the type you might find written by Stanislaw Lem,
Ursula Le Guin, or Phillip K. Dick. But, Herbert wove a wonderful
tapestry of story, future, distant shores, culture, intrigue and
memorable characters that spawned at least two movies. I thought the
work was incomparably imaginative. I have read other works since,
though.


Em is fine. I really like, no let me say it differently, I'm a huge fan of
Usula Le Guin (favorite story is The Darkness Box) and Phillip K. Dick (Do
android dream of electric sheep aka Blade Runner). I also love Azimov (I
Robot and the Foundation novels - except the last one), Heinlein (Stranger
in a strange land... I still re-read it), and Bradbury (too many to list).
Heinlein is actual exceptional. I saw the movie version of The Mouse that
Roared when I was a child and thought it was so much fun, but I never like
The Wizard of Oz. I didn't like the Dorothy charcter and the monkeys scared
me when my mom took me to see it.

--
Nom=de=Plume