Truly intelligent design
Sep. 12th, 2011 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blatherskiteWhy is there life in the universe? As Iain M. Banks (Use of Weapons) explains, it all comes down to a case of galactic indigestion:
"... it's like this: the.. dust clouds and stuff in the galaxy are... its food, and its food keeps speaking back to it. That's why there are so many humanoid species; nebulae's last meals repeating on them."
So why is there intelligent life in the universe? Why, because of intelligent design, of course:
"Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol."
I can think of worse cosmologies.
"... it's like this: the.. dust clouds and stuff in the galaxy are... its food, and its food keeps speaking back to it. That's why there are so many humanoid species; nebulae's last meals repeating on them."
So why is there intelligent life in the universe? Why, because of intelligent design, of course:
"Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol."
I can think of worse cosmologies.