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Mine isn't either of those, or any other variation. The point is that since you are not them, you can't know what they would do. Your "interpretation" is just
by DeusExMachina 6y ago
Mine isn't either of those, or any other variation. The point is that since you are not them, you can't know what they would do.
Your "interpretation" is just making them after your self image, thinking that that is what it means to be "advanced".
- nate_meurer 6y agoA more charitable interpretation is that an advanced civilization would be more likely to ensure it's own longevity and durability by engaging in serious, disciplined conservation of resources. Pretty simple observation, really.
- timeslip1523 6y agoWhy conserve when there are so many resources to acquire? Better to efficiently spend the available resources as quickly as possible to expand to space and start on the exponential growth. Unless your scale of 'conserving resources' involves putting out the stars to save their hydrogen for later use, you're doing it wrong.
- princeb 6y agothe classic scifi trope of an advanced extraterrestrial race is one that is able to not merely ensure its existence but also develop and advance itself rapidly through aggressive intergalactic colonization and resource extraction.
- DeusExMachina 6y agoTheir resources don't have to be the same ones you need. They might have technology to produce everything they need and disregard any other ecosystem, especially ours. You are again just projecting what you/we need on them, like the parent comment.