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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

If we ever found intelligent aliens, some of us would absolutely try to convert them to christianity, and there are already plans to exploit planetoids for their resources. We are the alien invaders, sans space travel.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We'd probably at least be closer to tech breakthroughs like space travel if it wasn't for religious and capitalist shit holding us back

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

At the very least we'd feel less need to leave our current planet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Think of it other way around, its due to people like them that we want to leave the planet early

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Basically, we're the Mirror Universe in Star Trek.