I post just about as much of et related things here, and I’m much more active so yeah. I will try to keep this blog more consistent from now on though.
We use the word ‘monster’ to describe an animal somehow different from us, somehow scary. But who is the more monstrous? The whales, who ask only to be left alone to sing their rich and plaintive songs, or the humans, who set out to hunt them and destroy them, and have brought many whales species close to the edge of extinction?
We’re interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Wouldn’t a good beginning be better communication with terrestrial intelligence — with other human beings of different cultures and languages, with the great apes, with the dolphins, but particularly, with the whales.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos 11: The Persistence of Memory (via ali0nz)