• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    He does casually brush it off, and money isn’t a scientific reason to dismiss anything. I’m skeptical too, but this was a terrible approach.

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      Money represents effort and resources, so while it is worded flippant it is a valid point that we shouldn’t assume interplanetary flight is just a weekend away for aliens.

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        We don’t know the conditions on that theoretical alien world. They could be post-scarcity, or alternatively, they could be threatened to the extent that no cost is too high.

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          He is saying there is no reason to assume they have reached that point just to explain something that is most likely a misunderstanding of something mundane.