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		vee-kay 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What do we do if SETI is successful? Read up on colonial history. The stronger civilizations have always exterminated or exploited & subsumed the weaker civilizations.

int_19h 30 days ago [–]

At best that tells you that humans are like that for the past 10k years or so, which is a blip even in our own species' history, never mind some more advanced aliens.

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