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Re:What Do We Do If SETI Is Successful? by pfdietz on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:45PM (#45662121)
Yes. The Fermi Argument strongly implies this sort of question is pointless, an exercise in wishful speculation.
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Re:What Do We Do If SETI Is Successful? by kulahan on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:44PM (#45663667)
Probably thousands of years from now, but I do wonder when people will stop using "the universe is too vast to know anything" as an excuse. We've still got people pretending the ocean is an enormous, occluded mystery.
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