From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 09:07:04 MDT
"It's funny how much these Earth creatures think about threats and
counter-threats, offense and defense, conquest and expansion and the like.
Are they really afraid that someone is going to steal their IP?"
(IP can be loosely and limitedly translated as Intellectual Property, a
concept not well understood in the early 21st century. A more accurate
translation would convey the idea of a pattern of information,
self-referentially directed and evolving, intertwingled with all others, and
would invoke the ironic humor intended by the speaker at the thought that
such an Information Pattern could be "threatened" in any physical sense.)
- Jef
Greg Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> That they are not here yet, after at least 700 million years of our
>> biosphere being detectable, means that most likely the density of
>> dangerous predatory civilizations is very low, and our feeble
>> light-speed radio won't alarm anybody within the time that it will
>> take us to develop our own expansion wave.
>>
>> Radiate away, the bad guys are not there.
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