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I hope never. It's like amerindians wanting to find spaniards.

• ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
  Why should we assume ETs will behave like humans, especially humans of 500 years ago?
  • Thiz 11y ago
    Life in all universe runs on aggression and defense, or else they won't evolve. If they are less advanced we will eat them, otherwise they will eat us. We are right now like amerindians building a lighthouse to contact people in the old world. If we point it to Africa, elephants and tigers won't know how to respond. If we keep building it higher and higher and point it to Europe, spaniards will come and slaughter us all.
  • gknoy 11y ago
    Given that our civilization(s) have nearly always behaved that way when colonizing places, why should we assume that aliens are more "enlightened", and will see us as anything better than we've seen "native savages", or (worse) an "infestation"?
    • ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
      How can we possibly assume other aliens will behave exactly the way we do? That seems presumptuous. A very human centric view of life.