> Alintelbot@aol.com Wrote:
>
> >I think it's likely there are a _lot_ of >technological civilizations
out
> > there, and I think it's unwise (to be mild) >to assume that _every
> >single one_ is going to employ a variation of the nanotech scenario
> >that obviously sits well with members of this mailing list. Some of
them?
> >Quite probably. But _all_ of them?
>
> If they ignore that scenario then they're not very interesting, besides,
we don't need
> all of them. If even one civilization took to the Nanotechnology path
anytime in the last
> 5 billion years ago or so it would be obvious to anyone who had eyes
that the night sky
> had been engineered. We see nothing of the sort, thus I conclude that
quite probably
> their are no ET's, or if there are they're too dull to bother with.
>
> >We ourselves are a rather long way from the sort of nanotech you're
describing,
> >so we can't really even use _ourselves_ as an example.
>
> Nanotechnology may or may not be near on a human time scale, but from a
cosmological
> perspective it will happen instantaneously, this very instant.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
It's probably already been stated on an earlier post, but could someone please tell me again:
Thanks,
Scott