Peter Zeihan had an interesting take on the whole thing: If society out there was like star wars, there would be traders comming and going now and then. Or som

Peter Zeihan had an interesting take on the whole thing: If society out there was like star wars, there would be traders comming and going now and then. Or someone would already be here, exploiting us - the empire wouldn't be subtle about it. If society was like star trek, it would make sense that we see drones now and then, but they refuse to get into contact. If it was like with cowboy beebob with jump-gates, we'd seen those already. And whoever controlls them must be waaaay out of our league, and probably doesn't care that we're even there.