RE: Doomsday vs Diaspora

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 19:42:37 MDT

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    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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