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Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up? by AtlasBarfed on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:27AM (#26829863)
Anyone remember the Fifth Element where Milla Jovovich hits the word "war" in wikipedia?

Any civilized space civ will keep us in box with a lock in the best case.

Any rapacious space civ will enslave us, or just exterminate us.

We are evil. We're trashing our planet. Conflict, murder, war is omnipresent. Our leaders are liars and sociopaths.

Our only saving grace may be our sanity with respect to not nuking ourselves to the stone age.

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Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up? by 2342dfasdf on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:49PM (#26840964)
You have a high opinion about sapiens-sapiens capability to make reasonable actions. but most probably having surviving nuclear extintion till now was just a matter of survival instintc. Something happening almost entirely out of the neo-cortex.
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