From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 12:15:25 MDT
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hal Finney wrote:
> The problem with "going stealthy" is the "going" part. Some star has
> been there for millions of years and all of a sudden it blinks out.
> That's going to be suspicious to anyone who has observed it in the past.
> Especially as a strategy for a new civilization or SI, making stars
> disappear is going to expose your location to everyone else on your
> light cone.
That's easily solved by taking the approach of colonizing
nearby brown dwarfs or free floating planets. It isn't
clear that even an advanced civilization could catalog
*everything* out there that is useful. You just have
to keep under their "radar".
Robert
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