Any sufficiently advanced technology would not be bothered by energy resources. Seeking energy from a distant location is far harder than Fusion energy alone. And it is pretty universal.
What they may lack is something we used to have lots of - a tremendously interesting biological diversity and an entertaining human culture. We dwell on a planet that has been substantially undisturbed for billions of years. Long enough to collect and evolve a myriad of insane life forms that co-exist here. But we seem to be losing our species at a tremendously high rate - a third will go extinct in our lifetime. And our culture is now faced with the destabilization of climate, peak oil energy decline and a crashing economy - Humans are increasingly faced with pure survival issues - This place cannot seem as interesting as it once was.
It may be that they are just not much interested anymore. We may be regarded like 6 billion bugs in a jar, vaguely interesting, but now about to become inconsequential.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology would not be bothered by energy resources. Seeking energy from a distant location is far harder than Fusion energy alone. And it is pretty universal.
What they may lack is something we used to have lots of - a tremendously interesting biological diversity and an entertaining human culture. We dwell on a planet that has been substantially undisturbed for billions of years. Long enough to collect and evolve a myriad of insane life forms that co-exist here. But we seem to be losing our species at a tremendously high rate - a third will go extinct in our lifetime. And our culture is now faced with the destabilization of climate, peak oil energy decline and a crashing economy - Humans are increasingly faced with pure survival issues - This place cannot seem as interesting as it once was.
It may be that they are just not much interested anymore. We may be regarded like 6 billion bugs in a jar, vaguely interesting, but now about to become inconsequential.
...call the contract lawyers.
... and all those inept nervous terrorists who smell bad.
Headline revision: "EPA ignores persistent denialist whack-jobs"
Check http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/06/bubkes/langswitch_lang/6o
The ice this year is thinner than all years past.