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Poll: Scientists discover an intelligent civilization deep within our own galaxy, beaming out a signal asking if anyone else is out there. A planetary vote is taken to decide what to do. You're the deciding vote. What do we do?
  • 64.3% - Answer them and say hi! 795
  • 32% - Keep quiet until we can study them more and figure out if it's safe. 395
  • 3.7% - Answer them, but threateningly. 46
1236 votes

Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist? Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed. For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?

Wiredog


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D - Already have answered them myself, as if multiple others would not have already done that.

Kattosha


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If they are smart they will take one look at us and run

PocketBrain


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Well, if they are blabbing, that means that their distance in light years, that many years ago, they were in about the same state of development that we are. There is a brief window during which you will see transmissions from a planet before they go bankrupt, extinct, or their technology simply advances beyond broadcasting. Future radio communications on this planet are going to be lower-power and in small, coded bursts, much harder to detect and locate their source.

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drakethegreat


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Kattosha wrote:If they are smart they will take one look at us and run



Run? They would probably setup a barrier around our solar system to protect themselves.

Shinespark


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They clearly have WMDs.

It's been 20 years, I am going to copy that floppy.