On Monday, July 16, 2001 4:50 AM Anders Sandberg asa@nada.kth.se wrote:
> Well, when you re-engineer an entire globular cluster you are bound to be
> noticed quite far off. My scheme even involved planned supernovae; I'm not
> sure you can convert stars to quark matter in a quiet way. Dysoning the
> whole place might make things less obvious, but it still seems hard to
hide
> the enormous amount of energy being dissipated.
I agree about this, given our current understanding. However, if you were
able to plan things millions of years in advance, as I think such a project
would demand, then might it not be possible to hide a lot of the work?
> One might of course argue that the reason we still see the clusters is
that
> nobody dares to break stealth by going for them.
That another possibility. What about extracting energy from areas where it
would be likely for it to be noticed?
>> 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.
>
> Globular clusters are mainly older population I stars if I recall right,
so
> if they have planets they will be low on the heavier elements we would
like
> to use for megastructures, such as carbon.
I agree, though given the surprises of the last several years of "planet"
discoveries, I wouldn't be shocked if planets were found in the stranger
places -- even planets with heavier (carbon and above) elements.
Of course, maybe the gamma ray burst are really Jupiter brain societies jump
starting before they stealth.:)
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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