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		ig1 on April 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking What if the benefit from the nice aliens is to protect us from annihilation (whether that's from natural causes or from other aliens) ?

jheriko on April 26, 2010 [–]

Right, but what is the probablity of that? it has to be 100% imo

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