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Comment by DeusExMachina | Hacker News Reader

Would it? How do you know?

You are just projecting what you think on this hypothetical advanced species. They might find, instead, that they don't need or care for any of that and just wipe it out faster.

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Yep, that's my interpretation of "advanced".

Yours could be one that retreats into hermetic shelters and plays Call of Duty between themselves all day long.

Mine isn't either of those, or any other variation. The point is that since you are not them, you can't know what they would do.

Your "interpretation" is just making them after your self image, thinking that that is what it means to be "advanced".

A more charitable interpretation is that an advanced civilization would be more likely to ensure it's own longevity and durability by engaging in serious, disciplined conservation of resources. Pretty simple observation, really.

the classic scifi trope of an advanced extraterrestrial race is one that is able to not merely ensure its existence but also develop and advance itself rapidly through aggressive intergalactic colonization and resource extraction.

Their resources don't have to be the same ones you need. They might have technology to produce everything they need and disregard any other ecosystem, especially ours.

You are again just projecting what you/we need on them, like the parent comment.

America actually does it with our fantastic National Parks system.

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