https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3854850-science-is-better-than-politics/
The reason I seek a higher intelligence in outer space is because I do not find it on Earth. To paraphrase on John F. Kennedy’s “We Choose to Go to the Moon” speech: We choose to find our interstellar partners not in order to get more likes on social media, but to claim our status in the class of intelligent civilizations within the Milky Way.
Any alien society that overcame all its troubles to form a planetary union and develop interstellar travel that is efficient and economical will be extremely disappointed with us, wipe us out and mine Earth for its resources.
ReplyDelete