• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    There won’t be any new people there until our colonies get there in the first place, so it’s a self-solving problem. Tourists can travel as fast as the colonists can.

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            You said:

            it’s not about colonization or exploiting resources, but meeting new people

            What new people?

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              Any that are out there :)
              You have to assume we are uniquely special to think no one’s out there, do you have any evidence that that’s the case?

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                I’m not assuming we’re “uniquely special.” I’m not saying anything about us at all. You’re saying there are “new people” out there, that’s a positive assertion. I’m asking you to back that up.

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                  No, the null hypothesis is that if life can evolve here then it must be able to evolve elsewhere, unless for some reason it could only evolve here, in which case we are unique and special. You have a pre-copernican model of the universe

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                    I’m asking for any sort of evidence to indicate that the thing you’re claiming exists actually exists. If there’s no evidence then that’s a supposition.

                    What if I’d said that we shouldn’t invent warp drives because then the Reapers will come kill us all? Would you be wanting some kind of evidence from me that Reapers existed?