From:	Louis Barrera <lbarrera@****.NASA.GOV>
Subject:	Dragons, etc, etc, etc.
Date:	Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:14:12 -0700

Ok, the taxonomy issue, as mentioned by Fiend (sometime, somewhere),
is an interesting one. But as all dragons aren't all hexapod (at least to
our senses), then perhaps it is a red herring. As pointed out, when they
polymorph to a human (or whatever), they aren't constrained by the
number of limbs they started with. And if they hibernate as part of a
tree, mountain, etc., how many limbs does that make? Perhaps they take
a shape they choose. Maybe they take a shape that will effect our
perception of them, that fits into a particular mythos, etc. Unless some
are domestic, and some are imports....

And I am not convinced of the "alien" nature aspect, in regards to
another world, space ship, type place of origination. They want us to
think of them as superior (and they might be in certain respects.) We
don't generally consider ourselves in the same world as single cell life
forms. We think of life in the oceans as alien ( "The Abyss" aside.) Why
should they consider themselves part of "our" world, particularly if they
remember times when they were in charge. And if they truely exist in
the astral as well as this plane, they have every right to consider
themselves alien to us. We, at best, just visit there. We are but blinks in
time. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,.....

And as far as Mark's comments about bugs being no big deal, what kind
of chrome monsters does he run with.

-Still skeptical