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MisterMentat  ·  3436 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are the ethics of alien contact?

The same was probably hoped for intercontinental naval travel.





user-inactivated  ·  3436 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sure. However, interstellar travel is a completely different scale. Unless some species stumbles on some kind of holy grail of technology that makes it ridiculously easy, the amount of effort, time, and resources required to achieve such a feat in and of itself is probably a sign of social maturity.