Re: SETI/ASTRO: MBrains/JBrains & Globular Clusters

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 07:27:10 MDT


Robert Bradbury wrote:
>Matrioshka Brains, Jupiter Brains, ...
>might choose to locate themselves in globular clusters. ...
>survey of the M22 globular cluster ...
>According to a JPL press release, "dark objects" may make
>up as much as 10%(!) of the mass of M22, yet they could be
>as small as 80x the mass of the Earth....
>http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/GCaA.html

Care to make any predictions about observational features
of these objects? That is, if they were MB or JB, what
would that predict about them?

Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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