From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 13:01:19 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.
Robert Bradbury replied:
-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
Why sweat the details and existence of Leprechauns? We seem to have surmised
a plurality of cosmic rays and gamma rays slammed-out by black holes,
colliding neutron stars, supernovas, hypernovas, sterilizing everything in
its wake. Hence, Technological Life is currently rare, perhaps 100 million
years from now it will look like the Star Wars bar. Star traveling life must
be A) not in our galaxy
B) not
in the local group
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