Reply #53: It's all speculation, but he has a point. [View All]

[dorkulon]

Assuming there are many intelligent species, it's reasonable to think that at least one of them would annihilate us upon contact for whatever reason, one being that it's just safer for them, to assume we will kill them if they don't strike first. And all it would take to be the end of us is one such hostile species that is sufficiently more advanced than us.

And as the "small-mindedness" of referring to our own planet's history in extrapolating what other planets' species might do--given the knowledge at our disposal, what better reference can we make?