Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates

Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by Intralexical on Sunday May 19, 2024 @01:11AM (#40404420)

> It would cost a fortune and it would take awhile, but we could do it. Certainly it would be orders of magnitude easier than getting humans there, setting up any sort of interstellar trade, or working to understand each other’s language and culture. And nobody at the receiving end would be the wiser until their planet essentially ceased to exist one day.

Many of these arguments seem to work equally well for France nuking Britain.

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Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by lkirkwood on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:32AM (#40405312)

I am also skeptical of any overly pessimistic alien interaction theories, but I don't think this analogy applies here. We already have open communication channels and centuries of trust between the British and French, and we certainly did pillage each other before we figured out how to speak to each other.

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Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by Intralexical on Sunday May 19, 2024 @05:14AM (#40405502)

But you did learn how to speak to each other, and you're stronger together now than you ever were apart.

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