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Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



If they meant us any harm they would've thrown something dense at us at relativistic velocity. I say relax and let the supposedly hyper-advanced guys handle the details, they probably know what they're doing and we couldn't stop them if they didn't.

Pegged Lamb posted:

What kind of specialists or laymen would be the best people to make first contact? Should the event be tightly controlled or done in as unthreatening of an environment as possible?
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I don't think we've ever had a debate here on this and I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the next couple hundred years (and a lot sooner) first contact was made.

Linguists, with some biologists and maybe a physicist on standby.

I think you would be at least mildly surprised.

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