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electric_blue68

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12. Hmmm... If we weren't so emeshed in the tribulations of drumphf's & Co cruelties do you think this would have...

Mon Feb 16, 2026, 02:26 AM

Feb 16

bigger headlines?!!
Or is it just too new, and the weekend.

I mean... like... woah??!

I remember in Independence Day when Jeff Goldblum's character's dad Judd Hersh says something like 'why didn't you know?', to the President (Bill ?Pullman).
And the ?Secretary of Defense says "plausible deniability.".

Our galaxy is immense! And it's just one galaxy out of ?millions!

True as posted a lot of factors go from proper? chemicals into proteins into single cells; and up the building block of more complex life, and finally sapiency, and intelligence...eventually?

And as posted... the time factor is any space faring civilization out there now? More than one? A "Federation"? Factions that may be friendly, or hostile to humanity? Maybe indifferent? Are they capable of FTL drive, finding "wormholes", etc?

What can I say? I' been reading, and watching Science Fiction for 62 yrs or so!

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