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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by bredren on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:43PM (#17983367)
Perhaps other civilizations which manage to survive know something that prompts them to use highly directed, highly efficient spread spectrum technologies which are very hard for us to detect?

Perhaps the universe is much more dangerous for intelligent beings than we know in our youthful naivete as a species?

This is terrifying.

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by robterrell on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:57PM (#17984396)
"The Three-Body Problem" (& its sequels) are a fantastic exploration of this terrifying idea.
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