Re: ALIENS would be dumb! Stupid! Primitive!
JTEM <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2025 11:57:27 -0500
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On 12/1/25 11:49 AM, jojo wrote: > JTEM wrote: >> If any "Intelligent" species is likely primitive, no more advanced >> than we are, how do we find them? We can't reach them, they can't reach >> us... > we dont know that for sure if they go extinct. once fire and stone tools > are made, humans become cocroaches. The issue is that there's *Lots* of ways for a species to go extinct, so a percentage has to go extinct and never reach tech levels beyond us today. In fact, we are MORE LIKELY, not less likely to go extinct than our distant (and oh so primitive) ancestors, because not only are we vulnerable to all the same threats that they faced but, we add new ones! We can destroy ourselves now, we have the technology, intentionally and by accident. Homo habilis couldn't. At the same time, the "Natural Disasters" capable of wiping Habilis out can wipe us out! -- https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5