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Aliens haven't contacted us. Scientists found a compelling reason why. (mashable.com)

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tectonic planet are rare

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Perhaps we're just not as interesting as we think. Maybe aliens don't want to contact us for the same reason I don't want to contact kids playing in the park: I'm simply uninterested in whatever they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Lol makes me imagine that the alien species have a law against approaching humans or be charged with pedophilia.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they just have a bunch of myths about the evil homo sapiens abducting their alien babies.

It is homo phobia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Bravo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Oh no! Makes all that probing worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

"They're made out of meat."

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

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