From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 01:06:43 MDT
I think that the Authors of Five Ages is performing a rush to judgement as a
direct reaction to Dyson, Tipler, Linde, Gott, and the like. They may end up
being correct. However, when things like dark matter, dark energy, increased
acceleration, and so forth rear's their heads; since the 1996 publication of 5
Ages, it tells me to hang on to my space helmet, because the wheel is in spin.
Robert Bradbury opined:
<<I think the ETI thinking may have largely been dominated
by Dysonian or Tiplerian thinking that there may be ways
out of the quagmire (a doomed universe). But what if
Adams and Laughlin (The Five Ages of the Universe) are
right and no matter what we do in the current paradigm
we are ultimately hosed? Then there isn't any f***ing
point to colonization -- ultimately it is a pointless
exercise.
I'd also lean towards asserting that a species capable
of interstellar colonization is probably relatively
capable of knowing whether this universe is doomed.
Robert>>
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