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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 07 July 2014 02:43:21PM *  1 point [-]

But then you learn that everyone who has ever tried to do X has failed, and some of these people were probably much more skilled than you. ... For mankind X is making ourselves known to other civilizations at our level of development.

Does not fit. We have no idea how many of them there were - and if there were, how skilled they were.

Comment author: James_Miller 07 July 2014 03:37:27PM 0 points [-]

My analogy is based on my doomed assumption being true. I did not intend the post to be a justification of the assumption, but rather a discussion of something we might do if the assumption is true.

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