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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

What if we survived the attack on a life bearing planet? The Dinosaurs and their technology were all completely wiped out. Interplanetary T-Rex sounds pretty scary.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs would be insufficient to eliminate a life bearing planet as a potential future source of a threat appearing, unless you hit such planets regularly in that manner every few million years or so. If you were really going to do a policy like this, you'd want to hit the planet hard enough to completely sterilize the place, or at least kill off everything bigger than a microbe.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Hmm, ok - what if it wasn’t meant to sterilize the planet, but instead annihilate the food chain and create such an interruption to continuity that the dominant life form (Space T-Rex) gets wiped out?

    Why no one has bothered us, the planet is already listed as “Solved” so there is no need to bother.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The aliens would have to be stupid to list a planet as solved for tens of millions of years after killing off the dominant life forms, because, well, a new one will just evolve in short order, exactly as has happened on earth, and they ought to know this.

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