07-13-2019, 10:30 AM
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one-balled nipple jockey
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# 1 . Clarke's Law (by science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke): "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistin- guishable from magick."
Imagine a technology a hundred years beyond ours. A thousand years beyond ours. A million years beyond ours. And then remember that many stars, which might have planets and civilizations, are literally billions of years older than our sun. There might be races in this galaxy advanced as much as 10 billion years beyond our technology.
An old Arizona joke asks, "How many Apaches are hid- ing in this room?" The answer is, "As many as want to." Ad- vanced communication technologies would be far more subtle than the stalking techniques of the Apaches. If Clarke is right, even on a materialistic level, the only answer to "How many Advanced Civilizations are monitoring the events in this room?" must be "As many as want to."
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-Cosmic Trigger
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