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Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit

Harakiri Potter posted:

What if we're the aliens and they just discovered a hard drive full of porn from 20000 years ago when our spaceship crashed and we enslaved the neanderthals and moved them to our home planet to build pyramids for our God Emperor and then our home boys never came back and got us because we were convicts or something?

Frak!!!

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Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit
Hostile life forms, like humans would never develop faster than light technology as they would have killed themselves off. If aliens come, they would more than likely be a peaceful race, far, far superior to us savages.

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit

Blazing Ownager posted:

This is a common line of thinking but it's flawed. Almost all of our real major advancements in science and technology were BECAUSE of warfare. I dare say without things like World War 2 we'd be decades behind in technology.

If humans find something to kick the rear end of that requires FTL, we'll want to buckle down and make FTL to go kick it's rear end.

Do you think humans will live long enough to develop FTL before it kills itself off, especially if you look at the worlds current climate?

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