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		Houshalter on June 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There Have Probably Been Aliens Why would they want to hide? You are making a very strong claim about the motivations of aliens.

tyingq on June 11, 2016 [–]

SciFi usually offers this sort of explaination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive

Houshalter on June 11, 2016 | [–]

That's a very forced explanation by science fiction writers to justify it. I wouldn't expect actual alien civilizations to invent such an arbitrary rule.

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