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To: ThinkDifferent

My view is twofold: (a) interstellar travel is prohibitively difficult and expensive; (b) cosmic-scale engineering is nonsensical to advanced civilizations.


43 posted on 09/08/2005 11:21:49 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
a) interstellar travel is prohibitively difficult and expensive

Maybe, although I'd expect von Neumann probes or the like would be affordable for a sufficiently advanced civilization.

cosmic-scale engineering is nonsensical to advanced civilizations

Dyson spheres may be more trouble than they're worth, but I'd think they'd at least turn the matter in their solar system into computronium. Although I suppose if their processors are efficient they wouldn't emit much energy for us to detect.

60 posted on 09/08/2005 12:34:02 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent (That's great. What?)
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