Perhaps they have a more evolved aesthetic sense than you. Perhaps they
value the diversity of variously independently evolve intelligences more
than some eventual cosmic dissolution. Given that the stars in our sky
have been probably the most inspirational thing in history, taking that
sight away from millions of possible intelligent races is in my opinion
a huge crime, not only that, but those races caught on a planet inside a
dyson sphere would eventually be baked to death, so not only does this
mean the death of inspiration, but the death of innumerable
intelligences. Perhaps they know of a way out of this universe for
advanced races to follow to avoid the end of this one. Perhaps they
value the pace of evolution races will take from matter based to energy
based organisms. There are many possible answers to Fermi's Paradox that
still leave open the possibility for other intelligent species.
Givne that we as a race are nowhere near as rapaciously expansive as we
once were, I would expect that by the time we are expanding out into the
universe in large numbers, we will have achieved a rather Buddha-like
peacefulness and respect for potential.
-- TANSTAAFL!!! Michael Lorrey ------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:retroman@tpk.net Inventor of the Lorrey Drive Agent Lorrey@ThePentagon.com Silo_1013@ThePentagon.com http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/Mikey's Animatronic Factory My Own Nuclear Espionage Agency (MONEA) MIKEYMAS(tm): The New Internet Holiday Transhumans of New Hampshire (>HNH) ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/local/bin/perl-0777---export-a-crypto-system-sig-RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}