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Another thought about why "they" have not attempted to contact us -- Imagine that all highly intelligent life forms (HILFs a la Ursula LeGuin) have to go through the process of either destroying themselves through nuclear war, pandemics, destruction of the local environment OR escaping past that to a civilization that is sustainable. Once they jump past that, they can develop the scientific knowledge to escape the local system of planets and explore the universe --- When they discover a "civilization" that has not yet passed that point of self-destruction, they DON'T make contact because they don't want those not yet "safe" civilizations to be able to wreak their destructiveness on other HILFS in the universe --- In other words, the outsiders want NOTHING to do with us until we show whether we are going to get past the self-destructive barrier that destroys so many HILF based civilizations --- [this ain't my idea -- I actually got it from Noam Chomsky --- it's of course a speculation!] _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
