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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm
Besides an anthropocentric projection of our primitive social needs deriving from our particular precivilization social evolution, what reason can you think of why a technological civilization might feel the need to communicate with those who could only understand very dumbed down communication by the standards of the technological civilization?
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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 5:54 pm
(May 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Besides an anthropocentric projection of our primitive social needs deriving from our particular precivilization social evolution, what reason can you think of why a technological civilization might feel the need to communicate with those who could only understand very dumbed down communication by the standards of the technological civilization?
Because there's a better chance of being understood. The more advanced the information, the fewer receiving civilizations are likely to understand it. Suppose the situation were reversed and we were the ones attempting to communicate. Might it not be more effective to transmit what are universal messages (it's tough to imagine an advanced civilization that hasn't stumbled across the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle) than to transmit esoteric or high-end information that is known only to a few?
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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 6:15 pm
Why would an advanced technological civilization need to be understood by a backwards one? Why would it’s curiosity necessarily require some understanding of its by the subject of its curioty to satisfy?
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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 6:42 pm
(May 11, 2019 at 6:15 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Why would an advanced technological civilization need to be understood by a backwards one? Why would it’s curiosity necessarily require some understanding of its by the subject of its curioty to satisfy?
Shits and giggles?
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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 9:29 pm
Why does the Prime Directive apply at all?
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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 9:56 pm
(May 11, 2019 at 9:29 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Why does the Prime Directive apply at all?
It's definitely our (humanity's) thing, SOME of the time, but then ("Excuse me sir, have you heard our Lord and Savior!?"). I suspect that any aliens detecting our emissions took one look at those televangelist preachers and are going to give us a pass for a few millennia. Or, maybe realized that humans would make the perfect shock troops in a galactic war...which they no longer participate in.
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RE: Why we might be alone in the Universe
May 11, 2019 at 10:17 pm
(May 11, 2019 at 9:29 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Why does the Prime Directive apply at all?
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius