In 1972 we humans put a golden plaque on Pioneer 10, a probe we sent out into the universe. On that plaque we had engraved different symbols representing things that could be deciphered mathematically. Why? Because math is universal, at least on earth. Our understanding of mathematics is culturally very diverse, coming from thousands of years of learning, no one owns it.

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Well unless they encoded smoke signals on that plaque, it’s racist and needs to be hunted down for decolonisation

They better hurry up, it's the only thing we've ever sent out of our solar system, it's currently off to colonise deep space and has a big, and might I say privileged, head start.