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Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ... by SCAQTony on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:17PM (#20603628)
What would be the "ne plus ultra" of irony is that a hyper-advanced civilization had a policy of leaving us alone because they greatly feared us due to the fact we were thousands of times taller than they are.
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Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ... by powerbroker on Sunday August 04, 2019 @04:21PM (#20608998)
Or, its too much work for them to fund SETI research on their planet... and they find that they can spread through the galaxy faster, if they just wait for a civilization to a) announce their presence; b) nuke themselves to the stone ages; c) and leave lots of space for the aliens' 100-year starships to drop off a few million colonist to the 'intelligent' species that just nuked themselves. Slow and steady wins the race.
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