# Newly Contacted Peoples and Modern Civilsation?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 2, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-contacted-peoples-and-modern-civilsation/803289 "2017-12-02T01:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-contacted-peoples-and-modern-civilsation/803289/9 "2017-12-02T05:58:47Z")

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> [@SamuelA](#):
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> I have a feeling you’re going to argue with me on this. All I can say is that you can agree that if you posit an arbitrary number of years into the future where tech is developed to the absolute limits, and you are gathering the energy to do this from a PV array bigger than the surface area of the Earth, do you agree that you could in fact make this transformation to the Moon?

I was excited about nanotechnology, too. [In 1989](http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html). But now I believe that the vast majority of the breathless, hyperbolic promises are as big a steaming pile of horseshit as antigravity and FTL.

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