From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 00:06:32 MDT
(freaky formatting below, I'm replying at the top and be damned)
The key difference is that they don't have the ability to detect radio waves
yet, and there might be intelligences that currently we cannot detect,
because they use a substrate that we don't yet perceive. It is a critically
important difference, because we might yet find these intelligences, and we
might do so chiefly because of the critical insight that they could very
well be there (for all the reasons discussed so far, related to the Fermi
paradox, as well as possible other reasons).
Emlyn
-----------
-----Original Message-----
From: Pvthur@aol.com [mailto:Pvthur@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 2:56 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Fermi "Paradox"
In a message dated 7/21/03 10:07:07 PM, matus@matus1976.com writes:
Their existing on levels we are unable to detect
is indistinguishable from not existing at all.
That new tribe of ooga-booga's they just discovered in the amazon don't have
radios. They can't detect the radios wave that are all around them because
they don't now have the tools to do so. They still exist don't they?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Jul 22 2003 - 00:15:22 MDT