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[The Conversation] - First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

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[The Conversation] - First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

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History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

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Three Indigenous studies scholars draw from colonial histories and explain why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications.

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To be fair, science fiction has been trying to tell us this since HG Wells.

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