From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 19:42:37 MDT
Mitch writes
> Damien from CalTech [wrote]
> > Signals schmignals; if there were advanced life out
> > there there should be something watching us now...
> > which would have been parked here since before the
> > dinosaurs bought it.
> Not necessarily so! Because of Gamma Ray Bursters,
> bouncing boulders of asteroids, planetismals, traveling
> neutron stars... the early cosmos and our galaxy, could
> easily have had life wiped out and recreated 20 times
> in a 12.7 billion year old universe.
Yes, maybe so. But then Damien's point still stands:
nobody's out there watching us now! Not even some
restrained types following a Prime Directive.
Restraining yourself from overrunning everything in
sight is not competitive, though even Greg Egan doesn't
appear to realize it in his SF, (speaking of Diaspora).
> Therefore we may be one of the 1st to wake up, rather
> then some wise and ancient space clouds, or arthropods.
Well then, let's get on with it. The universe has been
too cold and too dead for far too long a time.
Lee
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