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Imagine sometime in the far future we pick up some type of
signal from an alien civilization. Since we mastered harnessing an
infinite amount of energy using our perpetual motion engines, it’s
pretty easy for us to hop in our spaceships and break the speed of
light.
Once there we scan for life and find none. Puzzled, we
instead find that the entire planet is in a constant state of creation
and destruction due to out of control chemical chain reactions. In
addition, the harmful radiation from the nearby star, and the corrosive
gases in the atmosphere would make life as we know it impossible. And
yet, we are still receiving crude repetitive transmissions from this
planet.
The captain orders a team sent to the surface to
ascertain the planet from the ground. Our anti-matter suits should be
effective at reflecting any sort of hostile matter or radiation that
would kill us outright. We beam down to the planet, and what we find is
horrendous:
Everything on the planet is hostile. From the
tiniest groups of molecules to the largest object, anything that moves
on the planet will chemically assimilate anything else. Though we are
repulsed, we are vaguely curious. From razor sharp blades, to pointed
objects, to poisons, to lethal traps and exothermic reactions,
everything has a way to consume energy.
Fearing for our lives,
we beam back to our ship, carefully decontaminate the team, then place a
warning force field around the entire solar system. We build a science
station with a nova bomb on a nearby planet in case the contagion
spreads, and then hastily head back home.
What would have
happened had this planet been exposed to infinite energy? It’s only
logical that the chain reaction would have spread infinitely, consuming
the entire universe. Photosynthesis and cellular respiration must be
quarantined for the safety of the universe.
That’s why this is called, oh wait, I wrote the wrong title. This should be: “Why Aliens Never Want to Contact Humans.”
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