Is it really just me?

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Am I really the only person who would find it incredibly fascinating to see someone getting eaten alive from the inside by trillions of nanobots?

Am I really the only person who has a blast spending an entire day researching the Philadelphia experient?

Am I really the only person who spends hours daydreaming about the possibility that UFOs, Atlantas and hundreds tribal stories of "the Gods" can be explained by a sub-species of homosapien which developed interstellar travel and diverged from our gene pool tens of thousands of years ago?

I find it shocking that other people don't find these things interesting... They are extremely fascinating. Why do most people not want to think about these things? I just don't get why any one person would not want to know about these things!

Just yesterday I was thinking about that nanobot thing.

Hello and thanks for sharing your special interests with us.

I would be very surprised if you are alone in your interest in any of these subjects.

In fact other than the flesh eating nanobots, you seem to be describing the not-uncommon characteristic of those with AS who long to be somewhere else, in another country, continent or world.

Whenever I see a movie where the 'aliens' are about to leave and invite the humans who are with them to go part of me wishes I was there being invited.

My wife who is NT is adamant that she 'wouldn't go'

Apart from the nanobots, I do think about the other things that you mentioned, from time to time, they just aren't my special interest.

I happen to be fascinated with stamps from Madagascar. (You can stop reading now if you want)

But not just any stamps. My 'special interest' relates to the stamps that were issued in 1895 by the resident British merchants, the so called 'British Inland Mail' stamps.

They were in issue for only 9 months from January 1 until September 30, when the French took over the island and suppressed the British Inland Mail.

Some of the stamps are really beautiful depictions of the Malagasay runners (who actually transported the mail across the island, itself the size of the UK) in vibrant colors.

The other British Inland Mail stamps of 1895 were issued by the London Missionary Society and resemble old fashioned bus tickets, with a tiny gum spot in one corner on the back.

The history of the island is another story................................

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mpw123,

I guess you don't watch scifi much!

MY take based on what I heard saw:

SG1

A human race evolves, goes to another solar system and changes to energy, TWO factions. One is harmless, and becomes like GOD, and starts Christianity, or at least the basis for it.

Another faction beecomes like the DEVIL!

They both leave technollogy in their wake.

In a far off area, a parasite invades people who use the old technology to infect other worlds. THEY become, mostly, the eqyptian Gods.

Another world has a benevolent race that comes here to help. They become the norse gods and the GRAYS.

Another world has a benevolent race that might be akin to the faries here.

Other species have yet to be seen.

The new "battleship galactica" franchise

apparently may be based on a paradox. 12 planets believe a 13th to exist. One creates a robot that "evolves" starts a war, and leaves. They then create artificial humans. It appears that the robots may have a part in creating themselves.

In looking for the 13th planet, the artificial humans end up being the ones to find such a place. They then create the fabled planet which they call earth. The new inhabitants don't know their ancestors were robots.

BTW the very first robot apparently plays a part in the development of a theology that created it, and calls itself a trinity.

Occam's Razor. Human belief in god/s arises routinely and apparently inevitably either without solid foundation ("God told me to tell you this, honest, so I've written it down for you in this book") or with foundations which are demonstrably inaccurate ("God told me to tell you that the world is flat") or even self-admittedly bogus ("If a man really wants to make a million dollars, he should start his own religion... hey, compensate me for my trouble and I'll tell you the news about Xenu.") There's no need to invoke anything more than human imagination in the absence of any solid evidence, like an archaelogical dig turning up a city with the remains of lots of unusual high-tech materials mixed in amongst the ruins (or a plastic "Shop Atlantis Mall!" carrier bag).

you are not alone in this way of thinking and i cant wait untill i can get me a cool robot arms like in i robot no more creaky joints for me my hands would be god like lol

I was thinking about the nanobot thing, just now. That would be cool.

No it's not just you. It's everybody who enjoys science fiction and everybody who creates it, both in film and book form. The nanobot thing is done well in the book "The Plage Year" by Jeff Carlson, badly by Michael Crichton in "Prey" and horribly in the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with Keanue Reeves. Not unique.

^The OP actually alludes to "the intensity" of his experience as well as the nature of "the content."

NT's don't get that. They get it theoretcially but not empirically. It's not just subject and content. it's about the FUSION with the interest as much as the interest itself.

I think you can probably find television programming that is in tune with your interests on... The "History" Channel. Why?

^ just poking a little fun at a television channel, not you. Your interests sound creative and kinda cool.