"...another universe." (p. 711)
- and this hypothesis, although it will later turn out to be unnecessary, has to be taken seriously:
"'If a ship could somehow flip from one entire cosmos to another...why, in five thousand years of interstellar travel, haven't we got some record of it happening?'
"'Perhaps the ships to which it occurs never come back.'
"'Perhaps.'" (p. 717)
But ships should arrive here from elsewhere? But maybe it happens extremely rarely? Conspiracy theorists would assume that the various planetary governments conspire to cover it up for no particular reason.
Years ago, I read a comic strip about Martians who kept reporting sightings of flying saucers from Earth until what we, the readers, recognized as a genuine NASA (or equivalent) expedition did arrive.
We would like more stories set after "Starfog" but maybe not ones about inter-universal travel.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
That's the problem with the conspiracy theorists: I hardly ever see any sensible reason why the objects of their paranoia should cover up whatever it is they believe is being covered up!
Ad astra! Sean
I do suspect that government agencies making experimental aircraft for warfare welcome the claims of Unidentified Flying Objects being spacecraft from other solar systems, because it help obscure the existence & capabilities of the experimental aircraft.
Kaor, Jim!
Possibly, but I'm skeptical even of that!
I would love to see a real UFO, a la Anderson's "Peek! I See You!," but I don't expect to.
Ad astra! Sean
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