Richard Dolan
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1,630 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Richard Dolan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like early, let's say early humans, you know.
They're just figuring out cause and effect.
They're just figuring out, wow, I can manipulate this environment and I can do things.
And then you show up.
And then you show up, you're an alien and you're like, well, let's explain to you how things are.
Like you would completely, I mean, what a violation.
I mean, it's honestly, it's one of the most egregious, intimate violations of the development of a brittle, fragile species that is just discovering reason and causality.
And then you're gonna go in there and they're gonna look at you as gods and you're just gonna screw with them.
so now here we are in the 21st century but we think oh well we're so much more sophisticated and we're so much more advanced really so we think we're we're on the level of of beings that can probably manipulate space and time in a way that we can't even begin to imagine uh beings that probably understand causality uh in vastly greater ways than we can probably imagine but we think that we can we can rock on their level we can roll with them
We really think very highly of ourselves.
We think that we have this psychological stability that our society would be able to sit in a room with a being that probably has a relative IQ of let's say 500 and oh yeah, can read all the things in your mind that you don't even want yourself to know about, much less other people.
It could very likely be a highly intimidating prospect to deal with these other beings.
we have nuclear bows and arrows we have uh we have artificial intelligent bows and arrows so we have we have serious capabilities now but imagine you're them again so so why would you come here to begin with i see two reasons reason number one is earth itself and uh i'm always i'm always bemused when i hear people say well you know our planet's nothing special is probably one of billions of planets like this well i don't know about that i'm not so sure that earth is all that
common uh yes i believe that there's a lot of other life out there but that doesn't mean that planets like ours are a dime a dozen we have an incredible rich abundance super abundance of life and genetic diversity that only exists for this brief moment cosmically speaking you know we earth is four and a half plus billion years old we've only had complex life
really for the last half of a billion years, you know, since what was called the Cambrian explosion, when you start getting complex forms of life.
So that's less than one tenth of the life of this planet.
And it's only going to go, you know, by another billion years from now, there will be no life on this planet.
The sun will have burned it all off.
So we're here for a moment.
We're here for a geologic moment where the thin skin of our world has a biosphere that supports life.
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