Comments on: SETI boffin promises ET detection by 2032 http://futurismic.com/2008/11/15/seti-boffin-promises-et-detection-by-2032/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dagonweb http://futurismic.com/2008/11/15/seti-boffin-promises-et-detection-by-2032/comment-page-1/#comment-16942 dagonweb Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:44:20 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=4778#comment-16942 Visualize the following: A PC program that simulates a galaxy, roughly, emergence patterns of intelligence, plausible travel speeds, millions of years. Assume there is no such thing as hyperspace travel. Then you can adjust slider bars according to your expectations and beliefs. You'd see that as soon as a tool using intelligence with strong motives attains independent space colonies, even the most shy, xenophobic, unambitious species explodes across the galaxy. Even without assuming that interstellar travel is done after some kind of singularity occurs. Maybe a "civilization" will not exist indefinitely. I wouldn't be so sure. Likewise I am not so sure that once it establishes interstellar capability it will stop or start navelstaring. In space there is so much possibility space, so manu resources, it's hard to see a meme evolution and the dynamic expanders coming out on top time after time. Visualize the following:

A PC program that simulates a galaxy, roughly, emergence patterns of intelligence, plausible travel speeds, millions of years. Assume there is no such thing as hyperspace travel. Then you can adjust slider bars according to your expectations and beliefs.

You’d see that as soon as a tool using intelligence with strong motives attains independent space colonies, even the most shy, xenophobic, unambitious species explodes across the galaxy. Even without assuming that interstellar travel is done after some kind of singularity occurs.

Maybe a “civilization” will not exist indefinitely. I wouldn’t be so sure. Likewise I am not so sure that once it establishes interstellar capability it will stop or start navelstaring. In space there is so much possibility space, so manu resources, it’s hard to see a meme evolution and the dynamic expanders coming out on top time after time.

]]> By: Jetse http://futurismic.com/2008/11/15/seti-boffin-promises-et-detection-by-2032/comment-page-1/#comment-16938 Jetse Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:10:10 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=4778#comment-16938 And the <a HREF="http://www.liftport.com/" rel="nofollow">LiftPort Group</A> aims to have the space elevator ready by October 27, 2031 (see the "Countdown to Lift", on top of their site). Just in time to meet the aliens?...;-) And the LiftPort Group aims to have the space elevator ready by October 27, 2031 (see the “Countdown to Lift”, on top of their site).

Just in time to meet the aliens?…;-)

]]> By: dagonweb http://futurismic.com/2008/11/15/seti-boffin-promises-et-detection-by-2032/comment-page-1/#comment-16935 dagonweb Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:12:30 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=4778#comment-16935 well, we know by now that actually seeing signs of aliens within (a mere) thousands of light years away would be very very bad. It would mean there would be contact within the plausible horizon of human existence. That would mean at some point - asymetrical contact, very very very bad. well, we know by now that actually seeing signs of aliens within (a mere) thousands of light years away would be very very bad. It would mean there would be contact within the plausible horizon of human existence. That would mean at some point – asymetrical contact, very very very bad.

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