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Fcbp t1_j0yex8f wrote

If they have the tech to find us, they would be searching for advanced civilizations and not one thats still in the oil age...

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soon-it-will-be-2030 t1_j0yfs6j wrote

But then in this scenario they would still exist I'm guessing. Wouldn't they just wipe us out if we become too advanced tho?

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Sassycatfarts t1_j0yhquw wrote

If you're an interstellar species there's no reason to wipe out another preemptively. There's just so much room that there's nothing they would have in their tiny sphere of control that you couldn't get elsewhere. An interstellar civilization like that would be post-scarcity, and they would be more interested in talking than destroying.

But let's change the scenario and say there's a whole community of interstellar civilizations that are much older and shared their "warp" tech with others. Perhaps they're much closer to each other like near Sag A*. If more civs have access to this tech sooner then they may have not worked out their primal tendencies and be much more warlike.

Truth is we're in a pretty safe neighborhood of the galaxy. It's more like the stix, and we're a tiny tribe that you can't even hear deep in the jungle. Hell, some explorers may have passed a few hundred light years from us prospecting and neither of us would ever know.

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