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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I've often wondered if there was a galactic "Off Limits" sign warning other civilizations to steer clear of the danger, but whet I really suspect is that once a civilization reaches the technological stage where they are able to reach out to other worlds, they have also reached the stage where it is possible for them to destroy their civilization. That is to say, I strongly suspect that no civilization ever reaches far beyond the level where we now find ourselves before it destroys itself. Pretty bleak, until you recall that life is just a bowl of cherries, and you break out in song.
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OTOH, sort of like that movie (the one that I can't remember, with the guy at the beginning saying that giant friendly aliens weren't going to descend from the heavens with loving hearts, or some stuff like that), it's more likely that any civilization THAT far advanced of ours would a) not find us all that interesting and b) be more likely to simply conquer, take resources worth having, and move on or stay as the colonizers.
It's not like our own world's history isn't replete with plenty of examples of precisely this. When technology is advanced enough to look like magic to those less technologically-advanced, the results are fairly predictable. Hell, maybe they'd keep us as pets!
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