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That article is a good demonstration of scientific entertainment. I liked that method: --- "What you need to do is to point our most powerful radio-telescope tr
by dennisgorelik 16y ago
That article is a good demonstration of scientific entertainment.
I liked that method:
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"What you need to do is to point our most powerful radio-telescope transmitters at likely solar systems and taunt them. 'The girly-beings in your miserable solar system could never destroy a planet as cool as this one...'"
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- stcredzero 16y agoMany think that all we have to do is show: 1) we are here 2) that we're savages who have nuclear weapons and who are perfectly willing to use them on each other. 3) we're going to develop interstellar spacecraft I think many civilizations worthy of the name would want to bomb us before we get out of Earth's gravity well en masse.
- sliverstorm 16y agoIn the grand scheme of things, I have come to realize nuclear warheads are not that fearsome. Thus far they have caused less damage to the surface of the earth than a pimple causes to your face. And the earth is insignificantly small. They are definitely scalable, but they are certainly no Dr. Device
- stcredzero 16y agoInterstellar drives are the dangerous bit. The point is that we have a history of being willing to use weapons of mass destruction on our own species. This should make other species a bit nervous.