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It takes just one BvN launch in galactic history to fill the galaxy up with self-replicating probes for the rest of its history. Doing this doesn't require muc
by pklausler 9y ago
It takes just one BvN launch in galactic history to fill the galaxy up with self-replicating probes for the rest of its history. Doing this doesn't require much more technological capability than we have now. Motivation, politics, and ethics do not matter, just capabilities --
over such a huge volume of space, across billions of years, anything that's remotely possible will take place. The galaxy is very large and very old -- yet it is not overrun by frantically reproducing robots.
- sametmax 9y agoAgain, you assume many things: - they are interested in expanding; - they didn't find a better solution to expand than going to other planets; - their material structure is similar to us (they are physical, they have the same size/speed/time perception as use) - the universe has no characteristics than we don't know about that could disallow us to perceive them (number of dimensions, or whatever) - they emit some signals among the one we can perceive; - they need and use energy as we do and as we understand it; - they are not actively hiding; - if we saw them we would realize what we saw. It's like an ant assuming that because they can't smell pheromones from another hill, there is no life there. Now, I'm for ocalm razor and I actually thing there is a strong probability that all those assumptions are true. But I don't know for sure that they are. They are just that: assumptions.