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Apr 17, 2004

Any intelligence sufficient to reach us from another star system is just as likely to ignore us or move on.

Movies/fiction paint a picture of them destroying us, maybe if they just don't care. But the universe is pretty big so there is no point, always another place to go.

The bigger problem is almost meta-physical in that we have no experience with other sentient life and we can't even know if communication in a meaningful way is possible. Is consciousness similar throughout the universe or are their perspectives beyond our comprehension?

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