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Originally Posted by davemac
How do you account for the writing, ducks have no hands, if they tried to write they would just have to wing it.  |
You may be right ... but I have been paying particular attention to the ducks. I had at first thought that the formation in which they were swimming provided a pictoral, or linguistic clue. But it does seem that the rigidity of the patterns in which they swim implies a mechanical rather than an ornithological origin ... In fact, the ducks may be robotic appendages, a maritime arm of the aliens. The large duck is not the mother, but, to use a naval analogy, the "aircraft carrier" in a robotic naval task force. The smaller ducks are the auxilliary and support craft.
That they look like ducks can be explained by the fact that aliens would design their maritime support craft in a form which would allow them to perform their tasks in the most efficient way possible ... that is, the form of a duck.
The writing on the "extinguisher" is puzzlin' ... Is it possible? ... no, I'll have to give it more thought.