From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 13:35:45 MDT
CurtAdams opined:
<<You can't assume that. Intergalactic travel at near-light speeds makes
for an incredibly hostile environment (extremely hard radiation for long
periods of time) and it's not at all clear that it's possible.>>
Hard radiation wrecking a carbon-70 based A.I. ? Remember, these people (who
knows?) are not made out of the deliciously gooey jellies and jams that
humans are made outta.
<<I'm inclined to expect a natural origin for this thing, on the grounds that
I don't see
why a galazy would be engineered this way. >>
Or on the grounds that something this wonderful is too good to be true to be
artificial |8-|
<<But if civilization-adequate seeds can't travel faster than what you get
out of fusion power, 0.1 c or so, an expanding ring is plausible for an inter
galactic civilization.>>
I am not sure why you would limit a super-civilizations interstellar
potential to cheesy, fusion power? Why not at least consider industrial-level
antihydrogen production, or perhaps something even more technically,
prodigeous?
But it is, alas, probably too good to be true.
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