Sounds like they’re addicted to materialism. Buying fancy toys to show off.

Hope your circumstances improve.

And what if the aliens are right bastards and kind of had it coming?

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Heh “need to done violence”

“And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.” - Genesis 6:7

“If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” - Genghis Khan

God help the universe if we ever discover FTL travel and escape the prison of lightspeed.

Too awesome

I’ve got a similar story that I’ve been workshopping for years…the alien races decide humans are too warlike, and after our first space war (against other humans, with us not knowing aliens exist yet) the alien council ruling the galaxy decides we’re too dangerous and getting too technologically advanced, so they send an AI to try to wipe us out. Galactic civilization has been largely peaceful for tens of thousands of years so they don’t know how to do war, but they program an ai to try to eliminate humanity while preserving the rest of life on Earth.

They mostly succeed, but in the conflict the earth does get devastated despite the best efforts of the AI. A human colony ship escapes, and hundreds of years later the descendants of the massacre return to wreak bloody vengeance on the rest of the galaxy.

But we’re not.

I think it’s a good idea, but I’ve never seen someone run the numbers.

I’ve seen estimates that it’s frequently cheaper to demolish the building and build a new one.

It’s the plumbing, mainly. Not designed to carry that much throughput.

Life is so rare, finding ANY life is worth investigation

Homeless dude living in the train station of the afterlife? That sounds pretty cool. Like the train stations in the Matrix.

Eh. The amount of oxygen in out atmosphere is pretty much impossible by non-living processes alone iirc. Anyone who can do astro-spectroscopy can probably tell there’s life here, from thousands of light years away.

I disagree. I think there is no more important thing we have ever done or will ever do as a civilization, than try to make contact with alien life.

OHAIMARS

Ah gotcha I somehow missed that part

Yeah I was surprised the state propagandists left the corpos that much market share.