Post AKbSUW048daVDR6kAy by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AKb7eBofwCCKTXYHQG by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
       2022-06-17T22:42:12Z
       
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       "Perhaps our fears about extraterrestrial contact are merely a projection of our own backwardness, an expression of our guilty conscience about our past history: the ravages that have been visited on civilizations only slightly more backward than we." - Carl SaganI tend to agree with Sagan that the tendency to fear a hostile alien invasion isn't all that reasonable.
       
 (DIR) Post #AKb7eCN3sLhgCBdk1I by Sklingklorp@dobbs.town
       2022-06-18T01:34:46Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #AKb7eDHQUmn3100ksK by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
       2022-06-17T22:42:46Z
       
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       The previous sentences are a bit more on point there, if more of a hot take: "It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. It is more likely that the mere fact they have survived so long means they have learned to live with themselves and others."
       
 (DIR) Post #AKbSUW048daVDR6kAy by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
       2022-06-18T05:28:19Z
       
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       @Sklingklorp i literally lol'd 😂