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From: keen@inuxd.UUCP (D Keen)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Stories where H. sap. gets its come-uppance
Message-ID: <794@inuxd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 16:23:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 16:23:01 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 06:17:50 EDT
References: <3597@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <846@ncoast.UUCP>
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Back, back, don't eat this line.

There is a "classic" short story whose title and author will,
I'm sure, be supplied by some other netter in which a group of
non-humans and humans of various evolutionary types are
searching for the origin of humanity as a class.  The gist of
the conclusion is that humanity was a pest aboard a large and
temporally different races spaceships, ala, the rat, aboard
sailing ships.

Don Keen
AT&T something or other

Oh yes, AT&T's comments don't represent what I think and mine
certainly do not represent what AT&T might think.
> Expires:
> 
> Quoted from <3597@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> ["Re: Alien Lowlife in Star Wars"], by Miller.pasa@Xerox.ARPA...
> +---------------
> | Now all this makes for interesting reading, and it's bound to be good
> | for our racial self-image, and it may well be (as I would like to
> | believe in my more rational moments) that EVERY sentient species is
> | distinctive enough to warrant having novels written about it, but just
> | once (deep breath,) I'd like to see a story written where man gets his
> | come-uppance-- where an alien race finds us and is bored because we're
> | just like everybody else.  How would THAT affect our collective psyches,
> | I ask you??!!??  
> | 
> | Anybody seen an interesting story about a boring race (i.e. us) ?
> +---------------
> 
> Not exactly one, but I remember reading one of Niven's ``bar'' stories wherein
> a chirpsithra reminisces about having come to Earth millions of years ago to
> find that the intelligent life was poisoning itself with its output of those
> deadly chemicals, oxygen and free water.  At the end, the bartender is left
> wondring what the chirpsithra will think of whatever race replaces the humans...
> 
> I don't remember the story's title or where I read it (or a lot of other things,
> as I'm sure the Niven fans out there will have noticed by now).
> 
> --bsa
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