On Monday, July 16, 2001 12:19 AM Anders Sandberg asa@nada.kth.se wrote:
> Hmm, is the most efficient form of the mass of a globular cluster
> M-brains, or would it be quark matter brains (assuming them possible)? I
> don't have the time to do the calculations today, but I guess it would
> be the later. So then you would merely want to use the 10% dark stuff to
> bootstrap a cluster collapse process with all the necessary
> infrastructure to convert the stars into quark matter and energy
> production black holes.
>
> On the other hand, no such events are visible in the past light cone (it
> would be rather obvious, I think, if a cluster collapsed very suddenly
> in a fairly regular fashion into a quasar-like very small object). This
> seems to suggest a kind of Fermi argument against my Ouranos quark
> brain...
Although it kind of makes for an unprovable assertion, isn't there a
possibility of stealth here? Would Jupiter brains or your Ouranos quark
brains want to call attention to themselves?
Also, I'm not sure how clear the Hubble data are. From my reading, the
globular clusters don't currently have detectable planetary disks. That
doesn't mean they didn't have them or that they don't have them below
detectable levels. Add in stealthing and -- well, add it in and you can
pretty conceive of any possible reason not to get a peek at Jupiter brain
artifacts.
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
See "The Many Births of Free Verse" at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/FreeVers.html
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