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[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="30" id="2882939"]As for being interested in a less advanced, but none the less intelligent otherworldly creatures... What are the odds of us not wanting to investigate? Or the odds in us not regarding them as more than mere insects, or wanting to know what and how they think? [/quote] Oh I don't find it unlikely that a space-faring species would be at least somewhat curious about less advanced, but still sapient species.&nbs

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[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="28" id="2882916"] The flaw in your argument isn't the possibility of any extraterrestrials having more regard for us than we do for insects, it's the idea that an ET civilization would want to know what humans are chattering about. That's even assuming that there are any ETs in decipherable transmission range; which, IMO, is unlikely at best. That's really the thing. Any alien civilization of comparable or greater tech level than the human

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[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="25" id="2882712"] Quoting OMG_pacov, reply 24 And that takes us to the hoax. Can you think of another location that would be more likely to cause speculation than something that is considered a holy landmark by 3 of the world's major religions? No, actually I can't. I never thought of it that way, but that's because the thread was oriented around 'da alien menace!'. Your points on the possibili