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Yesterday's big news was all about Stephen Hawking's warning against seeking out aliens. Why? Because they're likely to turn out to be Space-Vikings intent on stealing our land and pillaging our women! Or something like that.
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The opposite view is that any species advanced enough to travel interstellar distances will have needed to learn cooperation on a massive scale, would have survived internal conflicts long enough to do so, and would have likely passed through the technological Singularity. What do you think?
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Chris
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The opposite view is that any species advanced enough to travel interstellar distances will have needed to learn cooperation on a massive scale, would have survived internal conflicts long enough to do so, and would have likely passed through the technological Singularity. What do you think?
[Poll #1556972]
Chris
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It's ripe for speculation...
So.. are we going to be pets or pests?
Personally--if they show up--and they don't like us.. we're boned. They will just drop rocks on us from space and wait for us to die off.. then colonize and mop up any remaining pesky hairless apes.
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Overall--I'm surprised/pissed off that we haven't had more honest movies about alien encounters where they just drop rocks ont he planet.
I mean, it seems like a really fucking simple thing to do. You have the technology to travel between stars--but cannot grab 100 ton asteroides and put them in your mass driver???
I call lack-of-imagination-bullshit...
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*is creeped out*
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Exactly..
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Word.
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I kinda hate to think of it that way, especially given my hopes for peaceful and mutually beneficial contact, but skepticism is probably more called for on this matter. ::sad::
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They are already here and living among us.
They stopped by eons ago and found us uninteresting and our planet of no use. They might come back once we've finished off all this pesky carbon-based life form garbage and each other.
They made us, and this is just one big lab experiment.
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Edit. sp error
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His books are a fun read, (well, my idea of fun, anyway) and he's rather convinced.
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Complaint box: good.
Lack of cats: very bad, as they will be our salvation from the alien menace. Or they are the aliens.
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Forgive your humble servant, oh Cat in Excelsis Deo!
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Let us then assume that these aliens don't go the other extreme and become a bunch of peaceful Bhuddists and Taoists sitting around meditating or fishing.
Let us then assume that they aren't hit by an asteroid or wiped out by some other natural disaster because they were too short-sighted to take precautions.
And that they have found ways to bridge interstellar space in a scientifically and economically viable fashion and yet lack the technology to make their own world sustainable.
Thus, while I find the idea of any alien species fitting this description highly unlikely, if they make it here, they are probably smarter and more peaceful than we are, and they probably came out of curiousty rather than need, there is one more thing to consider.
Most of the resources they might need from Earth, such as water, fuel, atmospheres, can be found or processed from raw materials found on Saturn, Titan, Jupiter, the Jovian moons... they wouldn't have to bother fighting or even bargaining with us at all.
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