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I so dislike it when people allegedly friendly to my ideology take it for granted that the other side defines humanity. Yes, there’s a lot of awful in us. There’s a lot of wonderful, too. Let the other side say we’re crud. Let’s not say it about ourselves.

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Or… https://xkcd.com/1377

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I have it on good authority that when aliens’ GPS accidentally steers them into this neighborhood, they roll up the windows, lock the doors, and step on it at Warp 9

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I guess we won’t be having a “Day The Earth Stood Still” event any time soon.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com makes sense to me

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I agree, however surely if they were say 100 ly away they would detect our world as it was in 1924, as light would have taken 100 years to reach them.

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Either that or they have the prime directive.

Ahead warp factor 9 past Earth, Mr Sulu.

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This to me was one of the aspects of the Star Trek Prime Directive. Not just protecting minority culture but also avoiding it until it can get on the highway and you really can’t.

Anyway, let’s keep working for the betterment of humanity!

@georgetakei@universeodon.com If they are around, and I still doubt that they’d spend the effort to visit this backwater, the obvious conclusion is exactly that.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com I believe the answer can be found in the (new) Outer Limits episode ‘Final Exam’.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Proof that there is intelligent life ‘out there’:

They got here, took one look, said “OH HELL NO!” and went home.

That’s the proof they’re intelligent.

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If there existed a real version of Star Trek, would not the Prime Directive preclude a Captain Sulu from contacting a civilization as undeveloped, violent, and addicted to unrestrained capitalism as the present one on earth?

Better to let it progress or not on its own, as it attempts to explore a universe beyond its small star system. That could take some time, which would give the Federation - or the Klingons - more time to develop a suitable way of interacting with it.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Welllll… why are we studying lemurs, fungi, asteroids, religions, cockroaches, languages, jellyfish, music, viruses, ball lightning, cloud formations, rocks, seaweed, food, and basically everything else there is to see or imagine?

My solution to the Fermi paradox is: they’re cringing at our ceaseless churning-out of increasingly desperate and speculative solutions to the Fermi paradox. :P

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com either that or the filter is Orange and social media