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re: Are the Rare Earthers Optimists?

Interesting & creative imagining of alien intelligence. That's why SETI efforts are focused on putative technological civilizations, with the big assumption that some would wish to multicast using primitive radio and optical electromagnetic technology. I agree that technical civs would be rare even among myriad alien intelligences. Given different accidents of history, our culture could well have not developed technology as we practise it. Only one culture of the many human cultures, accidently went down that path although I'll admit that technology is a 'great attractor' in history chaos theory. Once somebody takes that path, others follow or are assimilated or eliminated.

You're a blazing optimist regarding the prevalance alien intel relative to me, but WTF knows?

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