[ExI] Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

[Dave Sill]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Edward Haigh <eh at edwardhaigh.com> wrote:

> When civilisations meet they're rarely peaceful encounters.
>
> If we ever collide with an alien race capable of interstellar space
> travel, my money won't be on trading technologies and textbooks but a
> rather swift end for us.
>

If they're anything like us, yes.  We'd be the native Americans in their
way.

It's imaginable, though, that such technologically advanced beings would
also be more morally advanced. Perhaps following something like Star Trek's
Prime Directive.

-Dave
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