From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 10:00:53 MDT
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> It does provide a distance to the object -- 600 million l.y.
> I personally would not launch replicators across that distance
> given that there are much nearer fish to fry.
You don't, of course. You just start the galactic spam chain letter. Leave
the rest to the miracle of the (fried) fishes.
> Good point -- raises the issue of whether multiple entities
> engineer their galaxies in this general direction.
Shouldn't all galaxies look that way, starting from the (unknown, but
somewhere nearby that object) point of nucleation, and shouldn't you be
able to see intermediate stages of engineering at the periphery of the
expanding ball?
> Of course any intelligence would want to take advantage of local
> resources. Would engineered galactic collisions be a reasonable
> strategy?
Iirc collisions might initiate star formation. However, galaxies collide
naturally. It has been modelled so often that people even write
screenblankers on the theme...
> No, of course not -- but does it lead you to want to investigate
> the galaxy further?
There are far cheaper and less amiguous ways to communicate. The simplest
would be visiting in person, by dispatching a tentacle.
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