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Intelligent life doesn't need to be very common before you should expect to be pervasive. We're a matter of years from originating von Neumann machines ourselv
by fooey 6y ago
Intelligent life doesn't need to be very common before you should expect to be pervasive.
We're a matter of years from originating von Neumann machines ourselves, so any civilization with thousands or millions of years head start should have incredible galactic spread.
- Izkata 6y ago> so any civilization with thousands or millions of years head start should have incredible galactic spread. No, we're saying that that life didn't even reach "civilization". Humans are a blip in time compared to the dinosaurs, for example - we may well be the anomaly, but life still be abundant.