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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9722324" data-attributes="member: 18">I suspect that if there are aliens looking for intelligent life, they wouldn't be visiting places on the basis of "current situation" because they'd be likely visiting every planet that could potentially have intelligent life in the future (with probes at least), assuming they had FTL.If FTL or similar doesn't exist, then that is pretty much a complete explanation by itself.That's a possibility, though I suspect the main issue we're having is that civilization needs to rise and fall quite a few times before you get a long-term viable intelligent civilizational species. Our society is increasingly ruled by the worst - the greediest, the most dark triad, and whilst it seems like terrible things that happened in the 19th and 20th centuries vectored us away from that temporarily, we're back on the path to destruction, in part because we're generally too nice to eliminate those people. Neither nuclear war nor chemical or biological warfare would wipe out humanity, it would destroy civilization, which is different. I suspect like, three destroyed planetary civilizations down the road we may find the balance of empathy, decency and dealing with bad people before they're problem (including preventing them from gaining power) to have something sustainable. Whether the beings of that era will regard themselves as "human", who knows, but I'd be surprised if they weren't basically homo sapiens sapiens.</blockquote>

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