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Maybe the Earth-based technological civilization attracted the attention of a space-faring civilization, who dropped an asteroid to wipe out the Earth civilizat
by snowwrestler 9y ago
Maybe the Earth-based technological civilization attracted the attention of a space-faring civilization, who dropped an asteroid to wipe out the Earth civilization (successfully, as it turns out).
Which means maybe we should be a bit more careful about bleating our existence out into the universe these days...
- rekado 9y agoPeople who had this thought have also liked "The Dark Forest" and "Death's End" by Liu Cixin :) (These are part 2 and 3 in the "Three Body Problem" series.)
- abecedarius 9y agoAnd in the 1970s by Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night.
- greedo 9y agoAnd Footfall by Niven and Pournelle. And the Galacti Milieu series by Julian May.
- KineticLensman 9y agoAlso 'The Forge of God' [0] by Greg Bear [1987]: "We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God
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- darepublic 9y agoYes, it makes you realize this pop song from the seventies is not only incredibly cheesy but could be catastrophically dangerous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrSVOOK610 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrSVOOK610