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1. Dom (dom@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 03:10:35 UTC Dom

   • John Carlos Baez

   @johncarlosbaez Sorry but WE should be proud of our own technological and scientific development. An alien civilization arriving here after travelling light-years would laugh at our low understanding of the universe.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 03:10:31 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • John Carlos Baez
     @dom @johncarlosbaez As a human, if we'd advance to interstellar flight in a couple of centuries and we'd go visit some previously inhabited planet, when we'd see the stuff they built before they perished, I don't we'd laugh. I think we'd recognize ourselves in part of it, marvel at the stuff we didn't recognize from our own history, and be sad that they're gone so we can't talk to them and compare notes.
   • Richard Hendricks (hendric@astronomy.city)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 03:10:31 UTC Richard Hendricks

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     • John Carlos Baez

     @clacke @johncarlosbaez @dom https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___1.htm

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   • Dom (dom@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 03:10:34 UTC Dom

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     • John Carlos Baez

     @johncarlosbaez I don't think you guys are actually reading my comments.

     HUMANS can marvel at our own past and how we developed over time (acknowledging both our past amd present endeavours) but ALIENS (if they were able to come here, hence able to overcome light-years of distance) would not find us special at all because we're a very self-destructive species.

   • John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 03:10:35 UTC John Carlos Baez

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     @dom - we don't laugh at Neolithic stone circles like Stonehenge. At least I don't. I find them impressive.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 03:11:30 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Richard Hendricks
     @hendric @dom @johncarlosbaez What a wonderful read! I got through 25% of it last night and will continue tonight.