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If a civilization has sufficiently advanced technology, then I would imagine they would be scouring the cosmos for more resources. Ultimately, every species is

If a civilization has sufficiently advanced technology, then I would imagine they would be scouring the cosmos for more resources. Ultimately, every species is biologically trained to propagate itself, consuming resources and expanding presence, unless there are other external factors governing (for example, long gestation periods, limited offspring, etc) So, advanced civilizations might put communication mechanisms in convenient places to contact inferior species.

FiReaNG3L 5y ago
Or an advanced enough civilization might on the contrary use their resources efficiently with long term planning and population control and stay on their planet / solar system - "advanced" and "ever-expanding" don't have to come together.
- spacedcowboy 5y ago
  INT and WIS are different stats, and sadly, one does not imply the other, at least in the only being we can yet study
wing-_-nuts 5y ago
>If a civilization has sufficiently advanced technology, then I would imagine they would be scouring the cosmos for more resources. Stable elements are not scare, life is scarce. I would hope that any civilization advanced enough to travel the verse would be able to strip mine the elements it needs from lifeless rocks and leave planets with life alone. Bezos is right that we should ultimately move resource extraction to space.
- baja_blast 5y ago
  Also extracting resources from astroids avoids the problem of getting them out of the gravity well. Sure they could mine Earth, but they would have to haul it off Earth too.
toomanybeersies 5y ago
> Ultimately, every species is biologically trained to propagate itself Grouped by planet, we have a sample size of 1.
teachingassist 5y ago
> every species is biologically trained to propagate itself, consuming resources and expanding presence It's not obvious to me that this would apply to xenobiology. (It's not even totally obvious that it applies on Earth - other species live a much more synergistic lifestyle than humans do)

FiReaNG3L 5y ago

Or an advanced enough civilization might on the contrary use their resources efficiently with long term planning and population control and stay on their planet / solar system - "advanced" and "ever-expanding" don't have to come together.

spacedcowboy 5y ago
INT and WIS are different stats, and sadly, one does not imply the other, at least in the only being we can yet study

wing-_-nuts 5y ago

>If a civilization has sufficiently advanced technology, then I would imagine they would be scouring the cosmos for more resources. Stable elements are not scare, life is scarce. I would hope that any civilization advanced enough to travel the verse would be able to strip mine the elements it needs from lifeless rocks and leave planets with life alone. Bezos is right that we should ultimately move resource extraction to space.

baja_blast 5y ago
Also extracting resources from astroids avoids the problem of getting them out of the gravity well. Sure they could mine Earth, but they would have to haul it off Earth too.

toomanybeersies 5y ago

> Ultimately, every species is biologically trained to propagate itself Grouped by planet, we have a sample size of 1.

teachingassist 5y ago

> every species is biologically trained to propagate itself, consuming resources and expanding presence It's not obvious to me that this would apply to xenobiology. (It's not even totally obvious that it applies on Earth - other species live a much more synergistic lifestyle than humans do)