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vital—physical aspect of their being has been progressively sacrificed to the psychic—mental portion of their development, since the enormous cephalic girth that describes their expanded cranial capacity at the same time has come to collide with the pelvic shrinking and uterine atrophy of the female of their species. In evidence the dorks refer Betty to a very tall, thin alien which she'd seen on occasion, indicating that this wanly phthisic female was typical evidence of the mortal inadequacies of their race: thus the requirement of vitallyrobust Earth-wombs, which although themselves not large enough to carry the colossal craniums full term, could suffice for the first crucial months till the hybrid fetus could be transferred to those sow ta " First of all, of course, this type of "testimony" should have alerted Betty to the gross inadequacies of any static "creationist" doctrine applied to such beings: already this "simple" explanation involves necessary genetic development in two directions, cephalic growth and pelvic shrinkage; and genetic progress in at least the former instance. Secondly however, the surface "reasonableness" of this explanation should have immediately fallen apart for the investigators; it shouldn't even have been provisionally acceptable: for in related pages of The Watchers Betty reports the communication of her spacebeings to the effect that they have the power to "opulate" and "deopulate", i.e. expand and contract, grow and shrink. This capacity which they are able to exercise over the outer tissue—mass (as opposed to the interior patterns of subtle nerve-reticulation, plexiform linkages or actual lobe—capacities as with the cingulate gyrus, hippocampus or some parallel of the substantia nigra) would certainly indicate an ability to stretch the required girth for any processes of even full—term parturition. The "explanation" is an obvious blind. But more: placing that "explanation" regarding the unfortunate genetic and structural deficiencies of the female alien alongside certain of their demonstrable capacities, such as the fluid "ambidexterity" with which they may glide forward or backward at will along the timeline, other fatal flaws appear which ought to have alerted the investigators to the presence of red herring amongst the crustacean—like appendages. If indeed, as the dorks purport, their abductions for the preservation and genetic improvement of the alien race have been going on since "man's beginnings", that fact produces a major clash with their power of timetravel...which ought to allow them imminent access in either "direction" to moments in their own species history (even more suitable owing to species self-similarity where they could—for instance—draw upon optimal conditions of their "former" stages of development, taking full advantage of their own more vigorous distaff forms presiding in the relative "past"; or they could, conversely, find conditions as advantageous for crosssplicing compatible codes in the opposite direction, where, upon some probability—wave of the far future, there would preside in pure paradox the tautological "result" of some parallel—time version of their improvement engineering. For surely, had they—as they manifestly had—the ability to visit probability streams of "their own" future, they should have the power to "cheat" the tyrant of strict consecution and, indeed, the demon of cause—and-effect, producing as it were a kind of pro— 72 babilistic sleight—-of—hand by drawing on the results of what they hadyet to synthetically concoct, in order to concoct it—sort of the metaphysical counterpart of the legerdemain whereby the sorcery of "loaning" generates capital prior to the existence of the wealth which nonetheless insures the loan. If, by the logic of their own admission, they so possessed the power to skate bilaterally along the line of time, what "forced" them nonetheless to have to resort to Earth women belonging to the terrestrial stream of sequent development? as if in fact the Dorks were effectually he/pless and temporally trapped, "stuck" somehow with the "present" condition of their own distaff derailed with prohibitively—narrow canal. 150 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm phantasmagoric "incubators".