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But why would a species that built an Apache helicopter want to waste its resources on attacking a termite mound?


It doesn’t need to be rational.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/03/afghanistan.lu...

The thought experiment I’m doing is asking what happens if there is a link between hyper aggressive species and certain kinds of intelligence and technological development.

It could just be a fluke of our evolution and history that there seems to be a link, but what if it’s a pattern. If true this would mean any spacefaring intelligence is likely to be quite scary.




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