Re: Relevant - Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth Very Special Indeed.

In article <6fs7cjl6gn78ps57j6ejmrpe3icvd6oqbc@4ax.com>,
 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:20:26 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
 

And I agree with Arthur C. Clarke, that advanced aliens are more
likely to be benificent.

 
According to *their* ideas of beneficent.

A quote from _The Termopylae Protocol_ by Weber and Holo:

"... you and I were both historians. When's the last time large-scale
contact between two societies--one significantly less advanced than the
other--ended well for the little guys?"
"Um..."
"Yeah. My point exactly."

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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