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Can you make the toilet paper overhand/underhand partisan too?
Those crazy librul bastards don't even use toilet paper because they don't want to harm a "poow wittle twee!"
Pansy-assed bastards want us to use those fancy french ass-fountains.
It's disturbing, I tell ya!
Let me know when you have a working model.
I'll probably be in the minority, but I'll say friendly. Anyone who can travel that far probably has figured out how to coexist peacefully.
That and egoftib keeps up relations by smoking ragweed or some chit.
The most likely thing to happen will be that they consider us uninteresting and completely ignore us.
The second most likely thing is that they will consider us or our planet a natural resource of some kind and will take possession of whatever they need.
The third and least most likely thing will be that they find us interesting after all, will respect our life and become benevolent friends.
The most likely thing to happen will be that they consider us uninteresting and completely ignore us.
The second most likely thing is that they will consider us or our planet a natural resource of some kind and will take possession of whatever they need.
The third and least most likely thing will be that they find us interesting after all, will respect our life and become benevolent friends.
Unless there is something fundamental to the laws of physics that is unknown to us, even if there is a very, very advanced alien civilization out there somewhere in the universe, there is no way that they could ever travel this far to visit us anyway.
and like alot of atheists tooDisdainful and disparaging, is my guess.
Kind of the way liberals act toward those who disagree with them. But in this case the aliens would be justified in adopting a superior manner toward humanity.
EDIT: By the way, I didn't vote because there was no "Other" option.
Probably not. Based on our own experience, the most likely reason an advanced civilization would first travel to our solar system is for scientific exploration.
It's unlikely that a civilization so advanced that it can accomplish interstellar travel would come here because it had 'run out' of food or oil or hydrogen or plutonium or arable soil. It's unlikely that such a civilization would require our solar system or our planet for 'natural resources.'
There is a theory that says that when a species develops advanced technology, that evolution ceases...they no longer are shaped to their environment, but rather shape their environment to suit themselves.
For all we know, FTL might be something that an alien race no more advanced than we are now, could stumble over thanks to an Einstein-level genius having an inspirational thought.
The universe is estimated to be about 12 billion years old
Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old
Earth had to start over at least 3 times because of major disasters in which the most developed species were wiped out.
Humans have only been developing for around 40 thousand years
These factors make it likely that we are Billions of years behind in evolution of some other civilizations
A recent documentary I've seen on space travel suggests that humans will likely begin to evolve dramatically once they adventure into space. For instance, even after a few generations of colonizing a body such as the moon, or Mars, our population would begin to select for traits which favored lower gravity. It might be tough to understand how natural selection would work for an advanced society in which every child is nurtured, well-fed, and protected. I believe the assumption is that those who adapt the best will be the most desirable physically, as well as the most healthy emotionally, and thus more likely to produce offspring.
Are you considering the factor in the Drake Equation, where a technological civilization is assumed to have a limited span of time in which it is capable of communicating on an interstellar level... including the possibility that high-tech civilizations destroy themselves eventually in most cases?
There was also the point that once we reach a certain level of technology, and start shaping the environment to suit ourselves, rather than being shaped by it, that evolution (for us) comes to a halt? The reasoning being, in one aspect, that instead of our "weak and unfit" dying off early, they are instead kept alive through medical technology and often reproduce.
Some speculate that self-directed "evolution" through genetic engineering and techno-augmentation would replace "natural" evolution.
Stars billions of years older than ours are also known to be deficient in heavier elements (in astrophysical terms, including carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, the stuff of life), and therefore less likely to have habitable planets with advanced lifeforms. The fact is WE might be the oldest intelligent life in the galaxy...we have no way of knowing at this point.
G.
including the possibility that high-tech civilizations destroy themselves eventually in most cases?
Others speculate that past a certain point in development, a super-advanced species would cease to be intrested in the physical universe and transcend into some sort of "higher state of being".
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