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    1. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 29 Aug 2016

      Josh Marshall Retweeted ryan cooper

      Having studied it in some detail, I think that's a naive read.https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/770423329434009600 …

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      ryan cooperVerified account @ryanlcooper
      yes, but, 16th-19th century Europeans were about the worst people who ever lived https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/770420651475820545 …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Aug 2016
      Replying to @joshtpm

      Another argument is incentive structure for imperialism doesn't work on interstellar scale: distances too great for exploitation

      5:58 PM - 29 Aug 2016
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        1. Тито Пуенте‏ @WineJerk 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Distances in 1500s were too great for exploited, not for exploiters.

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        1. Devanshu Mehta‏ @devanjedi 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          yeah, but disease and unintentional destruction just as likely. If we went looking for life, we may step on some ants.

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        1. d ⚽️b‏ @RealDBell 29 Aug 2016
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          No distance is too great to halt resource needs, depending on the price #thespicemustflow

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        2. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Yes, also the classic plucky traders trope. No one's going to haul effing *wheat* from star to star.

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        3. Me‏ @100MillionMile 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM and

          but what if wheat RNA cures their version of cancer?

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        2. J Poulin‏ @JosephPoulin175 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @BluthX @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Think it would be easier to just make the diamonds here. Ask @cstross

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        1. not John Conness‏ @puckthecat1 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Aztecs thought the same thing.

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        1.  🇺🇦 Крошнїт‏ @kroshnit 29 Aug 2016
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          Unless you have cracked faster-than-light transportation.

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        2. Marc Leavitt‏ @mgleavitt 29 Aug 2016
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          That's a reasonable statement based on reasonable assumptions and what we currently understand. But what don't we ken?

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        3. Marc Leavitt‏ @mgleavitt 29 Aug 2016
          Replying to @mgleavitt @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          I.e., "the problem with aliens is that they're alien" + it's the things you don't know that you don't know that bite you

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