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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Well, so that would bring them here for sure with oceans and we've got oceans and land.
Really, it's quite amazing.
So they would come here to check that out.
But then they're looking at these standing up primates, us, who have learned what they've learned.
That is, we've learned mathematics.
We've learned science.
We've learned that there is a kind of physics to the universe and to reality.
which is most animals don't get to that level, but we did.
And so they would definitely find us interesting.
We've got an intense curiosity and inquisitiveness and ability to manipulate our world.
We're sending probes out now into space.
That would certainly be interesting to any visiting species, but then they would have to think,
what should our attitude toward these people be first of all they're at war constantly non-stop they never never are at peace humanity is never at peace go back to our history never been at peace uh ever since we've settled down with uh you know social hierarchies last let's say 10 000 years
Be generous.
Go back to Sumer a little bit before that since we've had hierarchies.
There's always been warfare because there's always been surpluses of goods and people have tried to steal it from each other.
And so you create armies and you create walls and that's what we do.
We cannot help ourselves.
If birds had developed hands with opposable thumbs, they'd be doing the same thing.
It'd be no different.
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