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EYESORE 9001

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3. If an alien civilization had faster-than-light technology

Reply to hunter (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 02:09 PM

Oct 15

or if they travel through ‘wormholes’, why would they bother with a podunk planet like this one? With the whole universe open to you, wouldn’t you go where there are richer deposits of whatever it is that you’re looking for? One without scrappy bipedal life forms.

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'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? [View all] hunter Oct 15 OP

Or they've decided to move in on us after Vogon_Glory Oct 15 #1

Or they took a look and decided we were to FUBAR to bother with. 3catwoman3 Oct 15 #2

If an alien civilization had faster-than-light technology EYESORE 9001 Oct 15 #3

Beyond this place being fubar'ed enough to stay far away from, slightlv Oct 15 #4

Maybe after a long look they put a warning beacon here to warn other civilizations not to bother nt yaesu Oct 15 #5

What do you expect? We're no longer "Mostly Harmless" ms liberty Oct 15 #6

I don't think JBTaurus83 Oct 15 #7

"For centuries... thinkers have pondered... hundreds of billions of planets" hvn_nbr_2 Oct 15 #8

That's an interesting theory JoseBalow Oct 15 #9