Let's say that one day the president opened a broadcast to the entire world, with the message that earth has been contacted by a race of intelligent life from outer space and they offer us benefits such as these:
1.) cheap, clean abundant energy
2.) an answer to disease, poverty, and hunger
3.) access to medicine, science, technology, transportation, etc. thousands of years beyond our current levels
4.) the protection of a far-reaching military that is unaffected by the politics of earth
5.) an education that has the benefit of millions of combined years of experience from intelligent civilizations across the galaxy
sounds good so far. but here is the catch: in order to receive these benefits we must accept the following conditions:
2007-02-05
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