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Staring an advanced civilization straight in the face, the Roman dismissed it as either barbarism or decadence.
WSJ: Still Under Cleopatra's Spell
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The most technologically advanced civilization ever and we still try to operate with 150 year old economic ideas like they are the Ten Commandments handed down to the masses from Hayek, Keynes and their faithful minions.
FORBES: Chapman On The Money Is Too Damn Tight Party
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And what times we are living in, with the Large Hadron Collider on the one hand, and on the other, Nick Bostrom's very logical argument that we're actually living in a simulation operated by an advanced future civilization.
BBC: How sci-fi moves with the times
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But it L is large, it is likely that SETI searches will succeed and that the civilization that's transmitting is using a technology that is older and more advanced than our own.
CNN: Should we fear space aliens?