Re: MEDIA: NOVA on Gamma Ray Bursters

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 10:14:09 MST


> The so-called "Fermi paradox" is not a paradox at all.
> It's pure hubris to think that any life form capable of interstellar travel
> would care to visit this primitive Earth.

"Visit" isn't the issue: the question is why haven't they even left
anything lying around that we can /see/? Surely someone capable of
interstellar travel is also capable of large-scale engineering. Why
can't we see that Kemplerer rosette?

--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


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