Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 22, 2011

Bingo Dingo!

World of Ptaavs. i won’t bore everyone with the references to Secret of the Martian Moons again. you can read it yesterday’s comments if you want to.

I was thinking Georgia.

Was the moon a sleeper ship like Botany Bay was?

The ultimate Australia.Hm, maybe the Ekert was sent to act as a sort of prison warden, keeping the Earthlings happy and pacified so they wouldn’t think of escape.

44 minutes ago, AKHenderson ninja’d my thoughts. So that would make Australia the worst of the worst of the worst… Sir! Except for the fact that my Aussie mates are among the finest people I’ve ever known…

i’m still impressed by the technology of the spaceship’s 2-cycle’s putt putts.

The planet Australia. Didn’t turn out too bad.

Anybody with a backbone left England – by prison ship or voluntarily. What is left is domesticated and disarmed. They have to put their garbage out at the convenience of the local council and not their life. I’ll take the prison colony.

I remember reading a SF story about some interplanetary explorers who crashlanded on a planet and had to dispose of their waste. Although it was against code they left it on the planet they crashed into. Oh well, it was a barren planet and the 3rd from its star…

so, we weren’t created by a being in 7 days and taking a rib from a guy. that explains so much that we are a penal colony like australia. and, if earth loses it status as a penal colony and find out their version of england…those will say that we got funny accents. and, then we called them pommies.

No wonder we are in the unfashionable arm of the galaxy…

I must be descended from a shoplifter or some other small-time criminal then.

S.S. Botany Bay from Star Trek. LOVE the reference here. Where’s Kahn?

So L. Ron Hubbard was right?

Okay sooooo, This explains Australia and Alcatraz, We had this idea buried in our genetic Makeup.

So – this is how it moves toward an ending?

I wonder if he’s ever read David Weber’s “Mutineer’s Moon”. where the moon is actually an ancient starship, and we are all descendants of the mutineers, marooned on Earth, lol.

At least now we know why manned moon missions ended abruptly 40 years ago — they were too close to seeing something they weren’t supposed to see! However the warning was issued, it was heeded, and now the U.S. isn’t even sending people into orbit any more…

It makes so much sense now…

Earth: the Botany Bay of the Universe. SIGH!

So it IS an actual contest! Just absurd enough to spawn a cartoon. Bravo! But, I’m not a sci-fi reader, either, and was beginning to think I was the only one…

We work harder every day to prove our species was the reject.

Someone’s been reading Douglas Adams…. lol

Earth is a penal colony?? That why there are so many dicks in Washington!!

Suddenly my whole existance makes sense.

Kind of obvious, when you consider who and what our leaders are.

y’all sound like whizzers of Oz…hehheh.

OK, Wiley, we get it. You hate the whole human race. Now how about doing us a favor and finding a new topic?

This “penal colony” cartoon is the biggest clunker he’s turned out in five years….and that’s saying something.

Hi Baslim…I think in the Star Trek movie, “The Wrath of Khan”, their spaceship was named the “Botany Bay”…

Hi Wiley!Don’t worry, there are lots out here enjoying this arc. 50-1 odds, anyways, at this point of time…

For another take on Botany Bay, check out “Freedom’s Landing” By Anne McCaffery

There was another story I read years ago—multiple intelligent species, but only humans, with dozens of inhabited planets were clearly related, with a range of development, so that there were more and less evolved races. The question was why and how humans developed across so many parsecs..As the story starts, the main researcher shows that by projecting the galaxy back in time, there was a certain time when the human races made a good pattern—except the center was missing. So of course they went to look at the world at the heart of the pattern, and find a monument—that explains how this advanced race had one of its exploration ships infested by the equivalent of rats, who were mutated by living too close to the radioactive drive machinery. They had tried to kill off the infestations on the nearer planets, but realized they could never get rid of them all. . . ..Dern if I can recall where I read it, or the story’s author or title. Sounds like something from an anthology, perhaps Pournelle’s Imperial Stars or something like that.

A new (to me) explanation for all the evil on Earth.

This would be the only way we could have originated on another planet. The Australia of the universe. (Not knocking Australia, but everyone knows their penal colony history.)

“Stranger in a Strange Land”…or a strange penal colony. No, wait, a penal colony…wasn’t that “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?” ;)

I probably go against the grain, but I’m constantly thankful for all of the really nice people I meet. I try to be a nice person and they respond likewise. I’m grateful…

However, I’ve never forgotten TO SERVE MAN from the “Twilight Zone”. Aaack!

@Arye- what was the story name and author of that? Sounds like something I’d like. I used to love good Sci Fi and Fantasy (even wrote a couple of fun stories) but I prefer painting to writing.

So, is Wiley thinking of starting his own religion now?

I agree that most Sci Fi movies made in early days were a total abomination, but books and short stories (especially by independant authors) were GREAT!

That DOES explain so much!!!

Ha ha, that’s my husband’s theory, that we’re a penal colony.

They’ve been reading MUTINEER’S MOON by David Weber, it seems.

So….Earth is basically Australia?