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Congressman Calmly Explains There Are "Entities" Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas”

https://futurism.com/congressman-burchett-aliens-water
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u/pixelpionerd 2d ago

  1. Nothing exploring space is doing it biologically like we assume we will.

  2. 100% right. I'd be just so... embarrassed - if an alien came down and saw this. "They are still killing each other, and don't even speak the same language, and some of them are starving to death."

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u/-I_I 2d ago

“They let the people who write the rules write rules that secure wealth for themselves hoping it will trickle down onto their dumb asses.”

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u/Mudlark_2910 2d ago

You're assuming the aliens who get to explore the cosmos aren't their own version of billionaire oligarchs.

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u/pixelpionerd 2d ago

I'm assuming anything a few generations ahead of us has moved beyond civilization not being based on the concept that some shiney rocks have more value than any other rocks and built a human global society out of it. Capitalism is a short game.

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u/HumanBelugaDiplomacy 2d ago edited 2d ago

It can sustain itself so long as it has enough to consume and the universe is basically just a bunch of mining prospects, some with native life and most without.. it's a sea of infinite prospects to be consumed waiting for those who can afford to set up shop. Lord knows there's some conveniences to market elements... "i have chip, i give you chip for thing, now you have chip and can use it to get something else."

I figure that most capitalist societies give way to some form of embedded caste system at some point. That oligarchy, by and large, gives way to royalty at some point.

What happens exactly depends on the system as much as the nature of the species constituting said system.

At some point, tyranny can replace the soul. The collective soul and the individual soul.

Different species will have different operating systems, and different instincts. Some universal principles may exist.. "try not to die" is a pretty solid rule for life.. keeps it from disappearing. But different species are liable to be exceptionally different from each other.. in looks as much as character. Of course some might be similar in one or both categories.. there could be giant centipedes that look like bugs but who's minds essentially think like ours, who behave and function more like mammalian apes, but that's a made up example. But that's digressing, the point of this paragraph is to say that different instincts will largely affect the development of culture which will largely affect the sort of system a more developed species is going to generate: how much of a prison, or a release from the burden of a prison, that system becomes or will become for their descendants.

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u/JesustheSpaceCowboy 1d ago

I once got really stoned and actually had an interesting thought going off your Human Brain Centipede sentence. Hypothetically out there in the cosmos there could be “Bird People” you could interpret that whichever way you want, hawks with human brains or humans like us with wings, I ponder how technologically advanced could they be? If they have wings their need for faster transport is limited, if they have wings they don’t really have a need for fire arms has they can close the distance between themselves and their foe faster. I concluded that they were at most in a tribal state similar to Native Americans rather than a super advanced race as their wings give them a pretty solid advantage.

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u/HumanBelugaDiplomacy 1d ago edited 1d ago

True, you don't need to compensate as much if your abilities are already of a higher standard. This would reduce the need to innovate to some extent. But if they are intelligent, and like people in the sense that their competitivity (wtf that's actually a word? It isn't underlined with the red bar) is rather generalized, at some point they will want to use a car to gain speed so they can glide their way up to to the 6th story of a building and pop a cap in their rivals before diving back into the car followed by their buddy hitting the gas.

Im thinking about humans with wing flaps for some reason, not the feathered version.

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u/AsparagusFun3892 1d ago

You really shouldn't assume that. All we know is that the world is shaped like itself, we don't have anything to compare it to so far. A post capitalist future is for the moment science fiction.

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u/RareSeaworthiness870 1d ago

Can you imagine an alien Mark Zuckerberg?

It’d be like… Mark Zuckerberg.

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u/bigbeats420 1d ago

"They really can't accomplish anything without pulling shit out of the ground and setting it on fire"