On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 19:01, Matt Garman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:24:32AM -0500, Chris Jenks wrote: > > Forgetting all of the rest of your email, if you were an alien, > > would you want to contact this planet, just based off your first > > paragraph? > > > > Chris > > ps I'm not looking for a flame war, just pointing out that the > > signals that we are sending out there are not worth replying > > to. > > Well, if the aliens managed to perservere despite a significantly > lower lower quality of life than ours, then they might certainly be > interested in our media. It seems possible that an alien civilization > could be completely barbaric (constantly warring, anarchy) and yet be > technologically advanced (enough to send/receive galactic messages). > Those aliens might look at us and say, wow, that planet gets by with > only 75% barbarianism! > > Disclaimer: I do love to read sci-fi :)
Seems to me that all that warring and anarchy on a completely barbaric planey would exauhst all the time/imagination/resources. Would they want to spend resources on inter-stellar research, when they could be spending it trying to destroy the enemy? How OT are we now??? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch +------------------------------------------------------------+
