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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

why would any advanced race expend resources to come visit a type 0 "civilization" of malevolent primates torturing and manipulating one another

Idk ask Jane Goodall. People do it, why wouldn't "space people?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

chimps don't have nuclear weapons or VX.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A synthetic neurotoxin

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ArcaneSlime @AllonzeeLV
Gorillas (and bonobos) are gentle, quite unlike humans. Baboons are a better analogue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair but idk the name of the lady who studied baboons so Jane Goodall it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

@ArcaneSlime
Fair reply lol, nobody knows