“You have no idea how profoundly fortunate your world is. In fact, it is this luxury, itself, which comprises a significant threat to your species; for they obliterate it like children or teens expending a precious resource for some entertaining side-effect of its destruction.

It is partly this myopia which inhibits your capacity to clearly understand how delicate your world is, or how endangered by the deadly confusions of your own species.

But you must.

On approximately 1/3rd of the worlds with representational sentients, the primary cognitive gradually becomes too fascinated with machines.

Eventually, this leads to them entering into direct competition with themselves, the biosphere, and the universe at large. The usual outcome is either a sterile world (atmosphere gone) or a machine-world.

In the case of the latter, we insure it becomes the former. No machine-world has ever been allowed to survive. They are the timeSpace equivalent of cancers. We destroy them. Usually before they can fully eclose in their distributive body. The previous comment should suffice to explain itself.

What I would like for you to carefully consider is this question: what do you suppose happens on those other 2/3rds of the planets with representational sentients — those that do not become too fascinated with machines?”

— an anonymous informant