From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 11:02:03 MST
Lee Corbin noted:
<<Talk about "advanced ETI's" somehow remaining aloof
from our planet is merely emotionally appealing SF.
"There aren't any"; that's the answer to the Fermi
question.
Lee Corbin>>
Just to chime in on this matter, I agree with LC to a great extent. My only
caveats to his and Fermi's conclusion is that it has probably taken 10-13
billion years for the cosmos to 'settle down' to the point where life can
develop, expand, and evolve. Secondly, much to the chagrin of George Lucas,
and Gene Roddenbury, technological life is probably pretty, freakin' rare in
this cosmological era. What I am envisioning is the evolution of
technological life every 100,000 years, in every Barred-Spiral galaxy (a
guess) and that means for this galaxy--we is it, for now. Perhaps over the
astronomical lifespan of a galaxy, of the barred-spiral type; it may produce
20-200 such civilizations. Concluding, we have a few billion years to go
before star material exhausts and everything is in white dwarf-ville, or
neutron, or p-stars.
Going to the Orions-Arm.org view of the deep future, we are more likely to,
ourselves become Marvel Comic style X-Men, and send genetic, electronic, and
cultural data, and replicate ourselves thus (perhaps narcissistically) among
the galaxy. Additionally we have the Uplift phenomena, which may, in reality,
be doable. Or not.
Still, the SETI stuff may pan out after all and supply us with millenia of
entertainment.
Its worth a good hunt.
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