The Fool wrote:
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>Lets put together what we know:
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>Earth was never found by any alien species
>
This is not true. Check...
http://www.gayspermbank.com/brin/timeline.htm
.. and look at year 500 BC: "Last Record about Earth in the Library".
>(cept perhaps those elder
>beings who dove into Sol so very long ago (almost assuredly the
>progenitors in any case)), never colonized, polluted with alien life,
>DNA, etc. A pure habitat, untouched.
>
Again, not true. Brin Himself hinted that the Cambrian explosion
might have been triggered by ETs
[from His message on 1999-05-24... good times :-(]
Evidence from meteorites is strong
that there was a differentiated body that got broken up ~600 million
years ago, and that that's what many asteroids may be from. If so, you
don't have to drill at all: you just find the right asteroid and harvest
the whole thing.*
* Some suggest this was one of 3 bits of evidence that the
solar system was visited in that time frame. The other two were the
Cambrian "explosion" of life ("somebody flushed a toilet"), and the
claim that the age-distribution of ore-bodies of certain minerals that
might be of interest to advanced civilizations shows a distinct drop for
ages >600 million years.
So I would attribute the Cambrian explosion to ETs in the Uplift Universe.
>
>But what if the library was programmed that way from it's very beginning?
> Such that no record of Sol would ever stay in the archive? No
>exploration / mass starcharting would ever betray this poor yellow star?
>For indeed it is beyond imagining that NO one could ever have not seen
>Sol in the sky through telescopes / etc. and not marked it down somehow.
>How could it not? But it did.
>
As we know that hyperspace is unstable, probably what happened was
that hyperspace was "bad" during the times when humanity grew. This
would justitify why there is no psi, because psi depends on hyperspace.
Argh!!! Time to go to the Sh*ppings!!! :-/ More later
Alberto Monteiro
