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Old 10-28-2004, 14:20 PM   #8 (permalink)
The Chap
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Originally Posted by Horrido
Good....

I, personally, don't want any advanced civilization knowing we're here until we've developed the capabilities of interstellar travel and weapons systems to kick the butts of anything that might want to do us harm. History has taught us that any society aggressive enough to explore, is also typically aggressive enough to dominate, exploit, and eradicate the current inhabitants for its own o**ectives.

Goodness and light my ass... One name: Cortez.

I concur wholeheartedly. Not the bit about immolating y'bum tho'.

We probably should remember that NS refererred to a shell as opposed to the volume of a sphere, the thickness of the shell, ignoring diffusion and other scattering effects (interstellar medium etc.) only being as "thick" as the "active" spectrum broadcast lifetime of the emmitting civilisation.
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