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Godlike Aliens

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Killing the Alien Ambassador

Realistic aliens have warships that could sterilize our planet all by themselves, and potentially have trillions of them. Kill the alien ambassador by blowing his head clean off, and he might stand up a few seconds later to cheerfully inform you that such awesome regener technologies and medicines will be freely available to all as soon as our civilization joins thei empire - which we should do right now. Or a copy of him might step off his ship looking irritable about what you did to his android avatol he'd been remote controlling. His green alien blood might soak into the ground, infecting everything with nanobats that starts spewing out war machines,. nerve agents and viruses while also probably infect

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