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Old 11-May-2008, 08:00 PM
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Right, but let's be honest: a civilisation that keeps to itself and does not attempt to travel across the galaxy or communicate with others is not what most of us would consider an "interesting" alien civilisation, is it?
Wouldn't we? I wonder about this. Assuming, and it's a large assumption, that there is something in common between us and this culture, I would have thought it could be just as interesting, perhaps more in some ways, as hypothetical cultures with a closer match.
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