The case for stopping efforts to contact aliens
Why SETI Will Fail (and why we are alone in the Universe)
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Why are we so worried about aliens colonising us? it is because that is how humans function? With great power comes great need to take other people with lesser power. Do we worry aliens are going to do that because humans tend to function that way? If someone more advanced comes in, we will be treated how we treat one another. Which other species
... See more“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
Fwd: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & A WONDERFUL 2026.
What made the trilogy so stunning and atypical as a sci-fi story was the fact that Liu wasn’t interested in interrogating whether humans deserved to survive. Instead, the novels explored the danger of connection, of the way a thought, once shared, can expand into an unstoppable force—a radical, terrifying ideology or a shrewd solution to a... See more