On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, LARRY KLAES wrote:
> My question is, aside from most of our television programs, > political and religious attitudes, and our general backwards > behavior, what would or could we do to annoy such an > advanced society to the point of earning their wrath? Well, gee that sounds like enough to me. Polluting the galactic airwaves with I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners ought to get us a pretty bad rep really quickly.... :-; > I could see us being treated like bugs at a construction > site as they reshape the galaxy to their liking, but otherwise > I cannot imagine us being able to earn their attention, > let alone their annoyance. Assuming they would even > get annoyed at that stage of development. I suspect The Galactic Club (if they exist) would tend to observe fairly closely and act preemptively if a race like the Klingons were to appear on the horizon. Its like the current situation with Iraq -- do you really want to wait until Sadaam has used WMD before you take action against him. (I don't want to get into a debate on this -- I'm just using it as an example.) > Now a less advanced conquering species would be another > story, but with 400 billion star systems to pick from for > resources, I still have trouble with the aliens invade Earth > to take our water and enslave humanity scenario. Precisely. It isn't a conquest scenario -- its an eliminate a species that might not develop into a well behaved member of the club scenario. A species that potentially has the power to produce a GRB in your local neighborhood (of course this takes a lot of long term planning) *isn't* someone you want to be living nearby. At our stage its probably a "Lets watch humanity and see if it outgrows its adolescence" situation. Robert == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
