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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.tv
Subject: Re: Invasion of the Space Nazis, the final battle
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 01:02:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 01:02:44 1984
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>What I don't get is why they never asked their engineers any questions
>about the plot.  With all the money they spent, they could have easily
>hired one educated consultant.  Anybody with any knowledge of science would
>say that the idea of aliens coming here to steal our water and eat us
>is really silly.   Water the most precious substance around?  Give me a
>break!  People with biotechnology like that needing to steel our bodies for
>food, especially when they have to feed us?  Come on.
>And lizards?  Sure.  (This one is the worst.  I am fully prepared to believe
>human looking aliens with common ancesters to ours, but lizards in perfectly
>molded body suits?

I do not think it is silly.  I didn't see the first episodes of V last
year, so I don't know the background of their civilization or why they
came to Earth in the first place.  But consider:

1. There is a planet of amphibious(?) beings which is literally "drying"
up, for any number of reasons.  Since water is scarce, all primitive
forms of life (they ate mice, for example) die out eventually, leaving
the beings.  They have an advanced technology enough to duplicate the
epidermi of other species.  Also, they are a warlike, fascist state, who
feel no shame in taking from other worlds.  

2. Earth is 70% water, and almost all life on Earth is mostly comprised
of water.  (we are, for example, as most primates I imagine would be,
most mammals in general I suppose).  These beings could certainly use us
for food, assuming there are enough of us around.  It wasn't as if they
were going anywhere -- the world's population of humans and other life
could keep their numbers alive for quite a few years.  When they finally
exhaust the supply of life on Earth, they can just move off to another
planet. 

Water is a more precious substance than we Earthlings care to think of
it as.  Think about worldwide drought for a long period of time (one
year, let's say) and the effects of it on world politics, health, the
economy, etc.  (Think of Soylent Green, also.  We ate ourselves when it
came down to it, why shouldn't a band of ruthless aliens do the same?)

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