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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 19

    Jeet Heer Retweeted The Guardian

    In the jungle, do animals normally try to call attention to species that are more powerful than they are or do they try and hide?https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1516061764873560066 …

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    Scientists hope to broadcast DNA and Earth’s location for curious aliens https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/18/scientists-hope-to-broadcast-dna-and-earths-location-for-curious-aliens?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1650284375 …
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      1. dragonflight‏ @dragonflite1 Apr 19
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      2. Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short‏ @dmesg Apr 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Both strategies are used. There's no absolute rule but arboreal creatures tend to alarm and terrestrial creatures tend to hide.

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      3. Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short‏ @dmesg Apr 19
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        There's even some really cool cross-species symbiosis where the ground-dwellers have learned to recognize the alarms of the tree-dwellers.

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      1. 𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗝𝗮𝘆𝗘𝗺‏ @akaMisterJayEm Apr 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Only those parasites that grow in their hosts' guts. (I didn't start that sentence intending to describe humans' relationship to the Earth, but...)

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      2. Fashionably late capitalism‏ @redplanning Apr 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Meh, if they have the technology to get here we weren't gonna successfully hide. Most likely outcome (besides no contact) is a pen pal we can trade incomprehensible messages with every 100 years or so.

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      3. Anti-disinformation guy‏ @unhiddenness Apr 19
        Replying to @redplanning @HeerJeet

        we can't hide because there are episodes of 'Gunsmoke' floating though the ether

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      1. Matt Duss‏Verified account @mattduss Apr 19
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        "In case anyone is interested: we are delicious!"

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      1. Mr. Charles‏ @MrCharles00 Apr 19
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        I get it, but, honestly, what is here that would be worth the energy it would take to get here?

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      1. matt knachel‏ @knacheme Apr 19
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        Somebody needs to read Cixin Liu

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      1. Gutti Ormur‏ @Ormury Apr 19
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        Liu Cixin would advise we hide.

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