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Agreed, unless we haven't gotten a hold of all the physics necessary for trips on that scale. That said, I do think it's overly pessimistic to think that aliens
by blacksmith_tb 9y ago
Agreed, unless we haven't gotten a hold of all the physics necessary for trips on that scale. That said, I do think it's overly pessimistic to think that aliens would mistreat us as a matter of course - obviously we've done a lot of that to each other in the past, but I'd like to think that most modern societies (say, Norway, to pick a random example) wouldn't just casually enslave and kill a new tribe. We're at a point in our history where even the idea of colonizing is anathema (not that there isn't plenty of fallout from before that was true...). So I don't have a hard time imagining a species that's thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years ahead of us would have a very different take on interacting with other sentient beings (assuming we make that cut for them).
- Gustomaximus 9y agoTo add to that point, most colonisation has been about resource capture.If you have technology for inter galactic travel I imagine resource access of the universe becomes abundant. But who knows, maybe we make good pets.
- wutbrodo 9y ago> To add to that point, most colonisation has been about resource capture. I think you're over-extrapolating. One obvious difference is that colonizers have been exposed to other humans of all kinds, even before colonization. There was nothing about (e.g.) Native American society that you couldn't find in Eurasia + Africa that's even remotely on the same scale as the differences between us and a theoretical alien civilization.
- celticninja 9y agoLet's hope it's pets. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
- jcroll 9y agoLook no further than the current political climate of the United States, no matter how noble a society there will always be a segment that will act irrationally out of fear and ignorance. That same segment of a superior alien race could easily act to destroy us.
- averagewall 9y agoHow can you identify the irrational segment?
- jcroll 9y agoTry watching Alex Jones
- vixen99 9y agoLove to know where you locate the nobility and with whom.
- nerfhammer 9y agoDolphins.
- mazerackham 9y agoWe're hardly above colonizing. Just look at all of the wars America has fought over the last 50 years.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoWell, that's certainly about interfering with and exploiting, but not what you'd traditionally call 'colonization' - that is, there aren't masses of US citizens moving in to displace Afghans or Iraqis.