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Saxophone
Sep 19, 2006


Kerning Chameleon posted:

It was meant more in the "an adult addressing an adorably wrong child" sort of way, I apologise if any misogyny was inferred by my statements.

This is... Not much better.

My take on it, in general, is that once life is intelligent enough to make technological advances, it happens so fast on a cosmic scale that no one syncs up. If a technologically capable civilization started 40000 years ago, by the time we'd even be able to detect or interact, they have likely advanced far beyond anything we might be able to measure or interact with. That amount of time is massive in terms of our lives, but the tiniest blip in time in the universe.

The "bigger fish" idea doesn't settle well in my mind because what resources could we have to offer that a space-faring race that they couldn't get more easily from a non-occupied planet/solar system? Any slavery options are absurd too because they incredibly likely have machines/techniques that can do all of that labor for them with far less trouble.

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