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Originally Posted by blankall
I think if aliens came here and saw a bunch of jabbering and war-like apes tinkering around with thermonuclear devices they'd have concerns. I guess it would depend on what is actually associated with inter-solar system travel. If humans are so far off it won't happen in 10s of thousands of years, they're not a threat. If the secret is a lucky guess away, as an alien I wouldn't be super happy with what I was seeing.
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Assuming aliens would have any reason to care about thermonuclear devices at all, have any understanding of our technology and/or the pacing/trajectory of it, or be able to qualify our status as a species as “primitive” in the first place.