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If it exists, we'd better be afraid. Life, more or less by definition, sustains itself by some kind of reproduction, which implies that it consumes resources. This means that intelligent life is probably a self-limiting phenomenon. Intelligence is a response to scarcity in a world of limited resources, a place where the environment must be exploited efficiently. It doesn't take much to work out a formal proof that it's inevitable that intelligent living things are going to end up at each other's throats.

That's what we know, which is why the encounter between any more technically advanced culture and another ends in exploitation and conflict. It's hard to imagine any critter whose harsh environment led its ancestors to become smart to be any different.

Fortunately, as far as we know the laws of physics are constant. Atoms split just as easy there as they do here. There's a reason for the radio silence of the universe. Intelligent life flickers for a brief moment and then flames out in smoke and ashes. This is inevitable. Let a smile be your umbrella.

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And God spake to Moses, saying:

Hast thou a can of cream of mushroom soup? Thou shalt make for thyself a bowl of cream of mushroom soup, else thou shalt cast it away.

Thou shalt not bake cream soups. Thou shalt not mingle them with pasta, nor with rice. Thou shalt not bake the mixture, nor add thereunto cheese, nor flesh meat, nor the fruits of the field; neither shalt thou sprinkle fried onions thereupon, nor even potato chips; thou shalt not bake them. For lo, all such things are an abomination unto me; and I am the LORD.