Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Quote of the Day

By Steve Hynd


Quote of the day comes from Stephen Hawkings, who's sure there's intelligent alien life out there but warns that meeting aliens might place us in the position of being Native Americans post-Columbus.



"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."


Yup.



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  1. Ron BeasleyApril 25, 2010 at 5:40 AM

    ditto to your "yup"

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  2. SRW1April 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM

    I fancy the idea that if there indeed is intelligent life out there, there's a good chance that at least some of its incarnations are more advanced than homo sapiens. Which is to say, it is likely that some of these extraterrestrial forms of intelligant life have already mastered the developmental stage of technically being able to anihilate ones own existence while not yet possessing the ethical maturity to securely tame that impulse. That is more more than can currently be claimed for the master species of planet Earth.
    So I imagine that for the time being humanity might be under some sort of quarantine, until that evolutionary bug sorts itself out one way or another. If we go down the wrong route on this problem, we may end up as just another one of the failures at the experiment of life in the vast universe of space and time. Regrettable, but there may be others that look a little bit more promising.

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  3. anna missedApril 25, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    I think all this space alien talk is silly. And is most likely rooted in the fact that the universe is a big, dark, empty, and lonely place. It's comforting to think we're so important that some others (out there) might be so inclined to engage us in our awesomeness.
    Truth be told, any living thing so developed that it could traverse the vast stretches of time and space would by all logic see us, and all our stuff, as profoundly inconsequential.

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