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Comment Re:We should hide from Sterilizer civilizations (Score 1) 1015

by rpauli (#31975142) Attached to: Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

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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An anonymous reader writes "Republican consultant Patrick Ruffini, who counts Google as one of his clients, sketches out a way that the GOP could 'win back' Silicon Valley — but he gets smacked down by tech businessman Francis Cianfrocca. 'Patrick's basic thesis is that the VC firms that fund the Valley will rebel at being regulated by [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner, who is talking about increasing reporting requirements for both private equity and venture capital. Assuming I understand them both correctly, something tells me that neither Geithner nor Ruffini understand deeply what venture capital is all about.'"

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