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Anything intelligence enough to find us, or be putting out signals we can find with instructions on how we can reply in a reasonable number of human lifetimes, is intelligent enough to stay well hidden for us lest we infect them with our stupidity!


"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has to contact us"

-Bill Watterson (via Calvin & Hobbes)




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