As discussed with @APompliano on his podcast, the likelihood that aliens have pets seems remarkably lowhttp://offthechain.libsyn.com/austen-allred
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Interesting... But on the flip side, aren’t we (our only data point) a counter-example? A hypothetical alien civilization could be saying the same about us right now, but we have both pets and the technology
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The Trouble with Tribbles taught us it can be hard to separate parasites and pets, and we have had parasites for most of our existance, so we'd probably perceive aliens to have pets or they'd observe that our pets are just parasites...
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Are aliens defined as sentient races? I have trouble believing there's a sentient race, more or less at the top of the food chain on its native planet, that hasn't figured out how to domesticate other animals. It's like job #1 for sentient species - make other things do the work.
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I have another depressing theory. It’s that the combination of the rarity of radio sending / space traveling civilizations in combination with the speed of light and the vast distances makes it extremely unlikely we ever hear from them even though they are out there.
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@Snowden pointed out, maybe the real-life equivalent of warp drive being the litmus test for First Contact (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156650/in-star-trek-why-is-warp-speed-the-ultimate-litmus-test-on-galactic-acceptance/156656 …) is our ability to break encryption (quantum computing breakthroughs?) https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/21/9363863/edward-snowden-alien-encryption …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It’s math: 1. Either they are ahead of us technologically (100 years or 1,000,000 years is irrelevant), they’ve already been here and are watching our every move OR 2. They’re behind us and WE are more likely to be the invading hoard that destroys their way of life Prob #1
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Also - I may have missed the point of this tweet, if so, I apologize
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Wouldn't this also mean that we are too primitive to reach them and that they could have the same theories about us?
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I did a little riff on humans and their pets a while ago:http://www.zarkonnen.com/neocats
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