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Oh they've been here, had a look, and shook their heads - "Maybe another 2000 years, if they survive that long."
As Groucho Marx said, "I don't want to be a member of a club that would accept me."
Let's face it, if they arrived a mere 200 years ago, they'd have been challenged by a guy with a pointed piece of metal and a lacy ruff. Even HG Wells hadn't worked up the steam to produce War of the Worlds.
300 years ago and they'd been hung for being witches' familiars!
They would have had to have landed around 1980 to get an inkling of our potential and seen us with only one or two wars going on.
They would have noticed - 3 Billion people on the bread line, 1 Billion people starving, 1 Billion gorging themselves on the fat of the land and the surplus energy whilst beating off the others.
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