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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4617923" data-attributes="member: 3285"><p><strong>Convergence: Part 8 – Adams' Theory</strong></p><p></p><p>The agents were dressed in their old clothes.</p><p></p><p>"I don't know why we can't have containment suits," said Guppy. "They should let us put on suits."</p><p></p><p>"They're not giving us suits," said Hammer, "because we're contaminated."</p><p></p><p>"Not just contaminated," said Jim-Bean morosely. "Infected. We're screwed. That's why he still wants us to investigate everything. Let the walking dead go first."</p><p></p><p>"Stop talking like that," snapped Hammer. "Guppy's having a tough enough time as it is."</p><p></p><p>One of the men in NBC suits cleared his throat. </p><p></p><p>Hammer brightened. Anything to get his mind off of their plight. "Adams? Scott Adams?"</p><p></p><p>"In the flesh, so to speak," said Adams with a chuckle. "I'm afraid I'm not the author of the Dilbert comics, however."</p><p></p><p>"Who are you then?" asked Jim-Bean.</p><p></p><p>"I didn't want to bring it up at the start," said Adams." I thought I might get straighter answers from you if you weren't immediately aware of what I was here for. I’m a member of Saucerwatch."</p><p></p><p>"Saucerwatch!" said Guppy. "THAT Scott Adams! I went to one of your seminars!"</p><p></p><p>From beneath his bubble face mask, Adams smiled benevolently at Guppy. "Saucerwatch doesn’t go around checking out every crackpot report of little green men from Mars. For one thing, we don't have the funds to do that. Our job is planning for the scientific, social, and military aspects of mankind's encounter with an alien intelligence. We're really more of a think tank than anything else."</p><p></p><p>"That's right," said Guppy, talking quickly. "Your theory was that an alien encounter might start out in such a bizarre way that we wouldn't even recognize it as a first encounter. The popular concept of spaceships descending from the sky ... " Guppy's smile faded. His own personal experience was very different.</p><p></p><p>"If we find ourselves dealing with truly alien intelligences, their ships might be so different from our concept of a ship that we wouldn't even be aware they'd landed," continued Adams. "This is why we check into strange phenomena that don’t seem to be UFO related at first glance."</p><p></p><p>"And you think this is aliens," said Hammer.</p><p></p><p>"It’s much too soon to make any judgment about Groversville. We do believe there's a small chance the first contact between man and alien might involve the danger of biological contamination. Perhaps that’s why this thing, whatever it is, wrote my name on the bathroom wall. It chose me, based on my theories, as someone who might understand it. An inexplicable outbreak of an unknown disease might indicate an unrecognized contact with an extraterrestrial presence."</p><p></p><p>"But it killed the entire population of Groversville," said Jim-Bean. </p><p></p><p>"There's no guarantee that a creature with greater intelligence would be pacifistic and benevolent. That's a common conceit: the notion that aliens would've learned how to live in complete harmony among themselves and with other species. As that old song says ... it ain't necessarily so. After all, mankind is considerably further along the road of evolution than gorillas are, but as a species we're definitely more warlike than gorillas at their most aggressive."</p><p></p><p>A call came over the cistrons about a finding in the barn. Adams listened to different orders inside his helmet.</p><p></p><p>“Well gentlemen, looks like I’m with you.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talien, post: 4617923, member: 3285"] [b]Convergence: Part 8 – Adams' Theory[/b] The agents were dressed in their old clothes. "I don't know why we can't have containment suits," said Guppy. "They should let us put on suits." "They're not giving us suits," said Hammer, "because we're contaminated." "Not just contaminated," said Jim-Bean morosely. "Infected. We're screwed. That's why he still wants us to investigate everything. Let the walking dead go first." "Stop talking like that," snapped Hammer. "Guppy's having a tough enough time as it is." One of the men in NBC suits cleared his throat. Hammer brightened. Anything to get his mind off of their plight. "Adams? Scott Adams?" "In the flesh, so to speak," said Adams with a chuckle. "I'm afraid I'm not the author of the Dilbert comics, however." "Who are you then?" asked Jim-Bean. "I didn't want to bring it up at the start," said Adams." I thought I might get straighter answers from you if you weren't immediately aware of what I was here for. I’m a member of Saucerwatch." "Saucerwatch!" said Guppy. "THAT Scott Adams! I went to one of your seminars!" From beneath his bubble face mask, Adams smiled benevolently at Guppy. "Saucerwatch doesn’t go around checking out every crackpot report of little green men from Mars. For one thing, we don't have the funds to do that. Our job is planning for the scientific, social, and military aspects of mankind's encounter with an alien intelligence. We're really more of a think tank than anything else." "That's right," said Guppy, talking quickly. "Your theory was that an alien encounter might start out in such a bizarre way that we wouldn't even recognize it as a first encounter. The popular concept of spaceships descending from the sky ... " Guppy's smile faded. His own personal experience was very different. "If we find ourselves dealing with truly alien intelligences, their ships might be so different from our concept of a ship that we wouldn't even be aware they'd landed," continued Adams. "This is why we check into strange phenomena that don’t seem to be UFO related at first glance." "And you think this is aliens," said Hammer. "It’s much too soon to make any judgment about Groversville. We do believe there's a small chance the first contact between man and alien might involve the danger of biological contamination. Perhaps that’s why this thing, whatever it is, wrote my name on the bathroom wall. It chose me, based on my theories, as someone who might understand it. An inexplicable outbreak of an unknown disease might indicate an unrecognized contact with an extraterrestrial presence." "But it killed the entire population of Groversville," said Jim-Bean. "There's no guarantee that a creature with greater intelligence would be pacifistic and benevolent. That's a common conceit: the notion that aliens would've learned how to live in complete harmony among themselves and with other species. As that old song says ... it ain't necessarily so. After all, mankind is considerably further along the road of evolution than gorillas are, but as a species we're definitely more warlike than gorillas at their most aggressive." A call came over the cistrons about a finding in the barn. Adams listened to different orders inside his helmet. “Well gentlemen, looks like I’m with you.” [/QUOTE]
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