Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation

Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by tw04 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:50AM (#29401102)

Because we can only frame things in our own view. If an alien species was that advanced, then they would either want to help us evolve to a point we were passive (which we currently are very much not) or destroy us. And to clarify by "passive" I mean becoming a species that finds a way to co-exist with other "apex predators". Our current modus operandi is that we eliminate anything that poses a serious threat to our ability to do what we want when we want with 0 repercussions.

See: lions, tigers, bears, wolves, bobcats, mountain lions, etc. anywhere that humans have a meaningful presence.

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Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by deepsun on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:51AM (#29418663)

> either

Your argument vastly underestimates size of the Space and the amount of goods in it.

I firmly believe that the third option will take place: "no one needs to bother". Why bother destroying some little tiny pale blue dot, if your sky is literally filled with them and you can't even count them?

We're so focused and enclosed our minds on our precious Earth, that we laughably think is so big and valuable.

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Re:Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions f... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:17AM (#29402126)

Tigers are protected species. And if wolves are a threat to us, then we are as relevant as wolves.

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