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Oneironaut

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12. I think we tend to think of aliens as human-like.

Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:51 AM

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Our nature has severe flaws, mainly our desire to dominate, our destruction of the environment around us, and, our absolute short-sightedness. Intelligent alien life would not necessarily be like us at all. They could be so different that our species and theirs would be like us vs. a slime mold, or, even more different.

We expect to see alien ships, construction, etc, but, it could be that intelligent alien life doesn’t need those things.

That, or, we are a bizarre anomaly and 99.99999999999999% of life out there is just one-celled organisms.

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