Any time I see this discussed, I feel compelled to post the transcension hypothesis: http://accelerating.org/articles/Smart-2011-TranscensionHypothesis-ActaAstr

Any time I see this discussed, I feel compelled to post the transcension hypothesis: http://accelerating.org/articles/Smart-2011-TranscensionHypothesis-ActaAstronautica(Author%27sReformat).pdf http://accelerating.org/articles/Smart-2011-TranscensionHypo... In short: Life is common in the universe, black holes are better than Dyson spheres, and eventually everyone uploads their brains to computers. Far fetched or not, really interesting reading!