From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 22:40:36 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Jordan" <jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:04 PM
Subject: RE: Doomsday vs Diaspora
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:23:27 -0700
> > From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org>
> > Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > Subject: RE: Doomsday vs Diaspora
> >
> > Greg Jordan wrote:
> > > It seems improbable that a civilization spread out over various star
> > > systems would be using radio or any other light-speed communication
> > > system, which would be far too slow. So most likely, we are simply not
> > > able to monitor their communications medium, and perhaps it is also
> > > not "broadcast" but rather pointed with a little more privacy.
> >
> > ### This possibility is covered by the "common loss of interest in the
above
> > activities" part of the Fermi paradox explanation.
>
> What I meant was that an interstellar civilization might communicate by
> means that do not easily permit eavesdropping, by curious primitives or
> anyone else.
>
> I don't think intelligence, as we know it, could "lose interest" in
> exploration
### By "losing interest in the above activities" I meant losing interest in
producing signals detectable by us and/or in exploration. We have
insufficient data to exclude any of these possibilities.
Rafal
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