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There's so much wrong with that Isaac Send a noteboard - 19/08/2011 01:08:57 PM
I feel obliged to point out that no race capable of crossing the void is likely to lack either sophisticated replicators of the von Neumann variety or Fusion, if you've got fusion or something better, CO2 in your atmosphere is silly concern, fusion doesn't produce like fossil fuels and you could literally profitable suck it right back out of the air. So it would be a really f'd up thing to send a 'warfleet' when you could send a diagram of fusion reactor faster and basically for free.

There's also the prick factor, none of us would think genocide the proper route to deal with a culture that, say, chronically over-fished, so anyone who would go flying across light years to do so is probably a pack of SOBs simply looking for a thinly veiled excuse and 'eats meat' or 'murders and skins thinking feeling creatures to wear their hides around' are a heck of a lot more likely than a problem that ca not possibly matter, it's not like if we did colonize other worlds they'd even have fossils fuels for us to burn.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

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You make a fair point - 19/08/2011 11:22:53 AM 449 Views
Re: You make a fair point - 19/08/2011 02:06:05 PM 425 Views
Re: You make a fair point - 19/08/2011 02:10:43 PM 424 Views
It's the other other white meat. - 19/08/2011 07:13:19 PM 479 Views
There's so much wrong with that - 19/08/2011 01:08:57 PM 506 Views
"They don't recycle; kill them all. " - 19/08/2011 07:11:15 PM 500 Views
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yes I was just jumping into the middle of the discussion. - 22/08/2011 03:03:49 PM 429 Views
and we wonder why so many people ignore "scientist" - 19/08/2011 01:17:38 PM 523 Views
Think it's better to ignore "reporters on a slow news day," to be honest *NM* - 19/08/2011 02:38:23 PM 193 Views
Or even acquire a sense of humour. *NM* - 19/08/2011 08:36:07 PM 215 Views
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Hypothetical aliens are perfectly wise - 19/08/2011 06:24:13 PM 436 Views
You may be confusing aliens with God. - 19/08/2011 07:08:01 PM 463 Views
Not confused - 19/08/2011 11:41:56 PM 483 Views
It's a an amusing disconnect to watch. - 20/08/2011 12:25:00 AM 478 Views
Naturally. - 19/08/2011 08:36:28 PM 567 Views
So, basically, we're the poor white trash of the universe. - 19/08/2011 07:06:23 PM 524 Views

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