re: Just hope we aren't on the menu
Yes, finding another world inhabited by intelligent life forms is one thing, overtaking them and elsewise is an entirely different thing.
Either way should pose an interesting situation.
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Yes, I saw the sci-fi 'V'... emphasis on 'sci-fi'.
Who knows what the real encounter will be? The main thing we have going for us, is that we'll enounter them from space. In that regard, we and they will be lucky.
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