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post #51 of 53
3/5/08 at 6:01pm
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Originally Posted by Jack "Sue" Dnim View Post
Of course, we don't know how valuable our planet is or why some other species would covet it.
It's a bypass. You got to build by-passes!
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post #52 of 53
3/5/08 at 11:08pm
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Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun View Post
I see no reason to think an entire species would act as one. And we don't make decisions with a hive mind. The decision to invade Iraq, for instance, was not made by world-wide referendum. It was made by a few dozen people at most.
Indeed, which is my point when you said you'd doubt whether an alien species would be of one mind on destroying us. There is no reason to think that would matter or be necessary to ravage us.

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I disagree. People who take the matter seriously know there's almost no chance of finding the Federation or the Tymbrimi or the Instrumentality (how's that for obscure?). There's so much room to search in, and so much time has passed in which civilizations could have risen and fallen. SETI began less than forty years ago, depending on when you start counting; the odds of it finding anything before I die are smaller than a very small thing. And anything it did find will have probably long since become extinct by the time the signals reach us.
We are looking for life similar to ours, because that's the kind of life we can most easily recognize (how do you test for intelligent crystal or sentient energy?) and that's that kind of life we're most interested in discovering is rampant throughout the galaxy.

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It's a bypass. You got to build by-passes!
We cannot stand in the way of progress.
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post #53 of 53
3/6/08 at 12:19pm
I've gone off the path of progress. It's over-rated!
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