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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Oct 22

      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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    2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Oct 22

      1. Fermi's Paradox - aliens either don't exist, don't have tech to travel to/see us, or don't want to make contact with us. Third option seems unlikely, so if they exist they're likely too primitive to make contact.

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    3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Oct 22

      2. The time from domestication of animals to space travel/discovery on earth, measured relative to epochs of time it took for earth/humanity to develop, is miniscule. Practically zero.

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Oct 22

      So basically 1. Aliens probably aren't advanced enough to make contact with us 2. If they're not advanced enough to make contact, they're probably not advanced enough to have pets

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        1. Jonathan Howard‏ @staringispolite Oct 22
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          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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        1. William Saar‏ @saarw Oct 22
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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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        1. Rob L'Heureux‏ @rob_lh Oct 22
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          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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        1. My name is Jonas‏ @jonelf Oct 22
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          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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        1. Paul Pajo #Insulin4All {#HODL}‏ @pageman Oct 23
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          As @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 …

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        2. Israel Peck‏ @izzi_toutl Oct 22
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          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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        3. Israel Peck‏ @izzi_toutl Oct 22
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          Also - I may have missed the point of this tweet, if so, I apologize 😬

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        1. Pat Rooney  🌮‏ @hipatrooney Oct 22
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          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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        1. David Stark‏ @zarkonnen_com Oct 22
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I did a little riff on humans and their pets a while ago:http://www.zarkonnen.com/neocats 

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