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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by eastbayjake on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:55PM (#9938081)
Not a dig at anyone, especially not the Arabs who basically preserved philosophy and mathematics while Europe entered the Dark Ages. My point was simply that Kepler 452b-ians observing Earth would be seeing lots of war and destruction even though we're currently peacefully collaborating among mankind to discover and explore planets.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by dragonwriter on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:41PM (#9938702)
> My point was simply that Kepler 452b-ians observing Earth would be seeing lots of war and destruction even though we're currently peacefully collaborating among mankind to discover and explore planets.

There's a quite a bit more human energy going into war and destruction right now than into "peacefully collaborating among mankind to discover and explore planets."

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by balls187 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:37PM (#9938338)
> observing Earth would be seeing lots of war and destruction even though we're currently peacefully collaborating among mankind to discover and explore planets.

If they were observing us today, they'd still see plenty of war and destruction.

It just so happens that a fraction of the worlds population lives under "peaceful" conditions. That's not universally true.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by khuey on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:44PM (#9939424)
Most of the worlds population lives under peaceful conditions these days.
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