Compared to it, I am of no importance, but you will not understand or believe what I say to you unless you understand what I am. There is only one immortal being in the universe of it, more anon. They were dead three thousand years.Īnd this is what I want to tell you about-that mighty race and the others-but first, so that you will know how I know what I know, I will tell you about myself. When we did follow them, about fifteen thousand years later, they were gone. So they fled where we couldn’t follow them, then, outside of the Galaxy. I was second in command on a Hyper-A Class spacer in the war against the second extragalactic invaders, the ones who established bases on Jupe’s moons before we knew they were there and almost drove us out of the Solar System before we found the one weapon they couldn’t stand up against. I remember-I believe it was in the third great war-the blasting of Skora from the sky by a force that compares to nuclear fission as a nova compares to our slowly dying sun. I remember being on the first expedition to land on Mars and the third to land on Venus. Not that I have forgotten the really great moments. It would be horrible if I remembered the details of a hundred and eighty thousand years-the details of four thousand lifetimes that I have lived since the first great atomic war. Fortunately, the mind has a limited capacity for remembering. Fortunately, I have forgotten most of the things that have happened to me. There is much to tell you, so much that it is difficult to know where to begin. Then, after reading the above, here is the story Fredric Brown wrote (it is freely available on the internet here: If possible, please read first Bruce Charlton’s blog, where he compares that study with the situation our species is “in”, at this time. What happened was described by the author in terms of five phases: establishment, exponential growth, growth slowing, breeding ceases and population stagnant, population decline and extinction In essence: The so-called ‘Mouse Utopia’ experiment was conducted from 1968 by John B Calhounįour healthy breeding pairs of mice were allowed to reproduce freely in a 'utopian' environment with ample food and water, no predators, no disease, comfortable temperature – a near as possible ideal conditions and space. You can find it on Bruce Charlton’s blog: The author is Fredric Brown and the story was published in August 1949.īut first the essence of the “Mouse Utopia”. It did not take long to find it back, online. ![]() That’s all I remembered (I had read it in a book with short SF-stories). I knew it had the word “Phoenix” in the title. It always “stuck to my mind”, I never forgot the zest of it. While reading a blog of a PA-member (Bruce Charlton) with that very title – Mouse Utopia – I was reminiscing about a short science fiction story I read long time ago. ![]() “Mouse Utopia” was a sort of new concept for me.
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