Thus, in an age when we have come close to destroying ourselves several times over, is it reasonable to expect that extraterrestrial civilizations would persist over lifetimes of hundreds of thousands if not millions of years?

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We have seen simplistic solutions come and go over that time, and I get very frustrated when they pop up over and over.

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