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Post by gkmoberg1 » Mon Aug 14, 2017 5:06 pm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 185455.htm

I suspect a grand game of intergalactic hide-n-seek is in the works. Perhaps too StarTrek's Prime Directive (yes, the one they break during just about every episode).

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Post by dongregg » Mon Aug 14, 2017 5:48 pm

gkmoberg1 wrote:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 185455.htm

I suspect a grand game of intergalactic hide-n-seek is in the works. Perhaps too StarTrek's Prime Directive (yes, the one they break during just about every episode).
Interesting that the conjecture somewhat parallels a (modern?) variation on the Atlantis myth, that Atlantis was destroyed by its own technology in a cataclysm that the technology unwittingly unleashed.
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Post by metoo » Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:51 pm

Well, the argument is well made. What Whitmire says is that:
  • We are young as a technological species.
  • In absence of other data, we should assume that we are typical.
  • Therefore, typically, technological species are young. Since they therefore usually not become old, they usually die rather quickly after they have emerged.
A rather bleak prediction, I would say.

Personally, I think this is an example of what I call "philosophising" - thinking without adequate data.
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