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tednoob • yesterday at 8:19 AM • 6 replies • view on HN

If they are intelligent and curious, imagine if they let us come tell them tales of the world, works of fiction, musings of space, what if they swim around just letting us tell them of all the fascinating things we find out. Humanity may travel the cosmos, only to come home to tell our whale friends everything we learned. I wonder if there will be a whale someday with the dream of going to space.


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acidhousemcnab • yesterday at 11:13 AM

They will say "no no, there's no problems we're having with pollution, and we think AI Godtech supremacy is a wonderful idea, and you should definitely pour all of humanities resources into going into space, and liquidate anyone who defies you".

sebastianconcpt • yesterday at 12:29 PM

The adventures they must be having and things they observed would feel unreal to us.

And of course I can't wait to have the cat translator. That's a big startup idea BTW, just a bit too early still.

Bluestein • yesterday at 11:37 AM

There's some sort of almost obligatory Star Trek reference lurking here :)

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Derberino • yesterday at 9:58 AM

Well I hope not, the might finally transform to a petunia plant, which will end bad as we all know

luxcem • yesterday at 12:41 PM

If they are intelligent they should fear and avoid humans as we killed so many of them and other species in the oceans.

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suddenlybananas • yesterday at 8:48 AM

That is not going to happen. I don't know how people entertain these absurd ideas about animal communication.

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