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Re:2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to l... by koheripbal on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:27AM (#22995609)
Given that the likely average age difference between species is measured in the hundreds of millions of years, I doubt that anything we do would shock them at all.

We are likely too inconsequential to even bother with examination.

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Re:2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to l... by Zenbit_UX on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:46AM (#22995743)
> We are likely too inconsequential to even bother with examination.

I was with you until this part, there's simply no way that's true. Even if the universe was brimming with life, an advance species' scientists and would be foaming at the mouth to discover a new sentient species, just like ours do when we discover something new.

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Re:2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to l... by sandworm101 on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:05AM (#22995911)
Like our reaction to a newly-discovered virus? A billion-year-old species might take as much interest in us as we might take in a newly-discovered algae on a rock,
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Re:2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to l... by gnulinux on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:59AM (#22996446)
There are humans who foam at the mouth when they discover a new algae on a rock, in particular, people who study algae. One might imagine there will be a some aliens who study new sentient species and be very interested when they discover humans. It's a question of whether they have access to enough resources to reach us.
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