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   Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 00:31:00 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

   The novel/movie Contact, but the Message is a scheme by a rogue accelerationist cabal of aliens to use humans as pawns to break the stalemate in a million year galactic cold war.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 00:30:50 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     Like, yeah, if the likelihood of alien life is *just so*, then maybe the friendly alien scenario in Contact might make sense.

     But if intelligent life is anything close to commonplace, then we might be in a universe filled with implacably hostile aliens who will outwit and outmatch us at every move. We might be in a game where to be discovered is to lose. We might have already lost decades ago. Or maybe the reality of our place in the hierarchy of life is even more bizarre.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 00:30:55 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     As much as I love the movie Contact, after watching it again this weekend I couldn't help but think about how naïve everyone in the story was about the whole situation. The last time I had seen it was several years ago, and I've read a lot of sci-fi since then that contain compelling points about how dangerous aliens are likely to be, particularly the Three Body Problem series and Blindsight.

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