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That is a really neat video. What could we possibly do against aliens who are that one step higher than us in intelligence? They could just steamroll right through us if they wanted to. I guess we could improve ourselves with a brain boosting implants but that is scary stuff. With regard to the beginning of life part, I read this book a while back called "Seven Clues to the Origin of Life" by A.G. Cairns Smith that talks how life may have been started by replicating crystals. Very interesting for those interested in another view on the origin of life.

If you want to know the sensation of being full 24 hours a day every day you go on a cruise. You can get food whenever you want. The Carnival ones have these self serve frozen yogurt machines you can use to your hearts content. So you've stuffed yourself all day and you realize it's 7 pm. "Oh no, it's dinner time!", you say to yourself, "they serve the really fancy stuff then." So you begrudgingly haul your butt to the dinner hall and eat until your entire digestive system has no vacancy. You wake up the next day rather full, not surprisingly, but that free frozen yogurt looks too good to pass up. You rinse and repeat. While all this is going on, you do get to stop at a little town or two so you get to walk some of the food off before the cycle begins again.