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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

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Climate Change

I would try to watch from a distance, do not interfere. And I would start interfering when these life forms start becoming quite, have the capacity to be destructive. So it does make sense now that we can destroy ourselves when nuclear weapons with engineered pandemics and so on, that the aliens would show up. It's a benign alien. You're thinking of it. Benign almost curious, almost... Is there something interesting about this particular evolutionary system? Because I'm sure even to aliens, earth is a curiosity. But it's in its very special stage. Yes. Among the 45 million centuries, the earth's experienced already. So it is a very special time where they should be

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