Boston Globe: Don’t Invite Extraterrestrials (The “Ancient Enemy” That Wiped Out The Anasazi?) — They’ll Destroy Earth
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Subject: Boston Globe: Don’t Invite Extraterrestrials (The “Ancient Enemy” That Wiped Out The Anasazi?) — They’ll Destroy Earth Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:02 am
Boston Globe: Don’t Invite Extraterrestrials (The “Ancient Enemy” That Wiped Out The Anasazi?) — They’ll Destroy Earth
A group of scientists in California recently unveiled plans to advertise Earth’s existence to space aliens, and invite them to visit. This prospect should terrify anyone familiar with the history of imperialism and conquest. On our planet, when a civilization that considers itself superior encounters a “lower” one, the result has usually been enslavement or massacre. Aliens would probably treat us just as pitilessly. Reaching out to extraterrestrial intelligence is the worst idea ever. It transcends follies committed by individual nations because…
Boston Globe: Don’t Invite Extraterrestrials (The “Ancient Enemy” That Wiped Out The Anasazi?) — They’ll Destroy Earth
Subject: Boston Globe: Don’t Invite Extraterrestrials (The “Ancient Enemy” That Wiped Out The Anasazi?) — They’ll Destroy Earth 
Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:02 am
