From: Greg Jordan (jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 07:51:41 MDT
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> That they are not here yet, after at least 700 million years of our
> biosphere being detectable, means that most likely the density of dangerous
> predatory civilizations is very low, and our feeble light-speed radio won't
> alarm anybody within the time that it will take us to develop our own
> expansion wave.
>
> Radiate away, the bad guys are not there.
Or, it could be that life is more common in the universe than dangerous
life, which could explain a biosphere being ignored for millions of
years. Dangerous civilizations in our vicinity may be reactive rather
than proactive or predatory, waiting until threats appear or become
obvious to deal with them. That is a lazy approach to be expected if our
planet does not really offer anything of value for "predation". Our
transmissions since the 1940s have probably not indicated much danger to
them. Even our fairly recent space launches must look like the
construction of rafts to a civilization with aircraft carriers and
nuclear submarines. We are not yet underfoot. Ah, worse than to be hated
is to be ignored...
gej
resourcesoftheworld.org
jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu
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