(February 19, 2017 at 7:08 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I don't get the feeling colonization in any way we would recognize would likely remain an attractive and productive activity for civilizations more than a few thousand years ahead of us in technology, nor would they be much interested in talking to us, as they can probably learn more about us then we know ourselves using methods of observation and probing totally unrecognizable to us.Maybe not, since we're out in the middle of nowhere with no inhabitable planets around us. I don't know how strategic our sun might be for their future military expansion plans, but we are rich in natural resources. We could be a way station for them to jump to another solar system.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
