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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
That is quite the post, but you fail to read or understand your own points. Meaning, it's all an assumption, but you think/hope it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts.  |
Wow... Really? You better re-read my post as either a. it went over your head or b. well I don't know what b. is.
I never once stated, supposed, or even assumed there IS in fact alien civilizations. Let me highlight every time I referred to
"said" alien civilizations. I in fact barely even mentioned an alien civilization other than to facilitate a point which I will reiterate at the end since it clearly was not comprehended.
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Originally Posted by Darkland
3. You also assume that said alien civilization would not be much more advanced than we are...
So that leads us to at least logically surmise that:
a. If an alien civilization has existed for millions of years and survived their own ages of stupidity, which we are STILL drowning in, AND they have been bettering their science and technology for millions of years as fast as we retarded humans have then I MUST borrow the words of Arthur C Clarke. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." We would literally think they were gods... hmmmm.
b. We cannot project our own inadequacies onto a wholly separate race of beings that have developed quite separately from us, within wholly different surroundings(place in the Universe) than us, and hindered or limited by their own different sets of mythology/ideology/religion etc.
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Let us rehash that. When I refer to the "alien civilization" it is in context to the original article and this thread. Hence I use the words "said" and "if" when speaking of the unproven existence of an alien race.
Let us forget the fact I only mentioned them twice in my post. Let us focus on your statement that I originally quoted where you assume you know what and how they would use their highly advanced technology. In truth we wouldn't have the first clue of what they can do or how they would use it let alone even understand it OR their intellect. It would be like what a pet must think, or not think in this case, when it looks at it's owner.
So trust me, I understand my own points very well and even Frank Drake would agree that extraterrestrial life is at best still a probabilistic uncertainty. As the saying goes... "the proof is in the pudding."
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