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Oneironaut

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14. Honestly, given human nature, I would probably not contact us at all.

Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:55 AM

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Humans are a very destructive and invasive species. Any intelligent life out there would probably just see us as perpetually-enraged murder apes that somehow spread throughout the entire planet. There wouldn’t be much in it for them, and, there’s a very good chance we all would just try to kill any landing party that came here.

Maybe we don’t see them because they don’t want us to see them, or, there’s nothing interesting here. They might not even consider us to be intelligent life or distinct from other animals.

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