Kind of relevant short story - my favourite
https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
Well yeah, we have to find it before we can kill it.
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We can’t even agree on the definition of life (within the context of the search for life). Largely we’ve settled on: whatever definition helps win grants!
we continue to look for intelligent life in the universe because we have yet to find any here
This simply means the only reason we search life in other places is to take those places for ourselves.
If it bleeds we can kill it plays qietly in the background
Kill the xenos!
SUFFER NOT THE ALIEN TO LIVE
For the Emperor!
Damn that’s awesome
I know what I’m listening to while painting tomorrow
Let’s be xenophobic, it’s really in this year
Let’s find a nasty slimy ugly alien to fear
The US is currently descending into a fascist theocracy.
That’s just a fact.
Congrats, you dragged US politics to a post that’s about something else! 🏅
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I could spend My life meeting strange new otherkin right here on earth.
Seek out new life and new civilizations, and introduce deadly biological pathogens to their ecosystems!