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It doesn't seem to me that they're predicting all that much. 1) Aliens will be interested in spreading themselves. This isn't such a stretch, but at any rate w
by stavrianos 17y ago
It doesn't seem to me that they're predicting all that much.
1) Aliens will be interested in spreading themselves.
This isn't such a stretch, but at any rate we're only interested in ETs that DO spread. Insular societies will be basically impossible to find, and so for the purposes of this discussion may as well not exist.
2) When they do, we'll be able to tell.
A little bit more of a stretch, but not totally crazy. Sure, we can't know what they'd invent, or what principles they'd work on. Maybe they go places in stable wormholes and do absolutely nothing when they arrive. But it makes sense to think that someone went for the low-hanging fruit and built a big-assed fusion drive armada. And we'd see that, I think.
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- swombat 17y agoBut it makes sense to think that someone went for the low-hanging fruit and built a big-assed fusion drive armada. And we'd see that, I think. Maybe they built a big-ass gamma-drive armada. Which would explain all the gamma ray bursts.
- wlievens 17y agoIs this in jest, or should we take it seriously? I mean the generalized version of this, of course: are there any astronomical phenomena we currently see as natural that could in fact plausibly artifacts of artificial processes?
- stavrianos 17y agowe've had terrific success explaining the things we see in the sky with simple, "dead" processes. I think that gamma bursts specifically haven't been explained though?