From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 22:37:57 MST
Robert J. Bradbury indulged his idee fixe :)
> stars in the process of being MatrioshkaBrainIzed *will* be
> "underluminous" in the visible spectrum.
> I suspect for an advanced technological
> civilization, ~6 light years away is *not* that far if one wants to
> observe a civilization making the singularity transition.
What, you reckon the nearest post-Spike Culture nipped over to the in situ
HPMS not long ago and set up their hide, from which convenient position they
spy upon us as we plunge toward the transition? Or did they drive the star
over our way, starting a few hundred or thousands of years back?
Damien Broderick
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