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Agreed on it being a terrible article. Way too many 'clever' turns of phrase. Why make a statement when you can juxtapose some pop culture references? Seems
by d5tryr 15y ago
Agreed on it being a terrible article. Way too many 'clever' turns of phrase. Why make a statement when you can juxtapose some pop culture references? Seems much more of an act of self indulgence than the condemning of one...
But as for your list I think you left out the Occam's razor option:
5) Rare earth hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
- asdkl234890 15y agoAlso space is really BIG, and no one can go faster than light.
- d5tryr 15y agoBIG space doesn't solve the exponentially-reproducing colonist issue though...
- rbanffy 15y agoPlus, if an exponentially-reproducing civilization appeared even in a neighboring galaxy a couple million years ago, we'd probably be able to notice something very strange. If it appeared in this galaxy, we'd probably never have evolved.