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Pest Control (100 words)
Jun. 16th, 2005 01:51 pmIn an infinite universe, the arisal of hostile alien civilizations is inevitable. We have no desire for solitude, but we have even less desire to be destroyed.
Destroying other cultures in their infancy is unethical. Anyway, we can't be everywhere at once. Fortunately an alternative solution was devised.
Fissionable materials are vanishingly rare in nature. 5 billion years back we synthesized and detonated a big chunk, scattering it to the galaxies. Surely it's everywhere by now, in usably small quantities.
Eventually the younglings will blow themselves up. If they don't, if they survive, that's the culture we'd like to meet.
Destroying other cultures in their infancy is unethical. Anyway, we can't be everywhere at once. Fortunately an alternative solution was devised.
Fissionable materials are vanishingly rare in nature. 5 billion years back we synthesized and detonated a big chunk, scattering it to the galaxies. Surely it's everywhere by now, in usably small quantities.
Eventually the younglings will blow themselves up. If they don't, if they survive, that's the culture we'd like to meet.
