Re: SCOUTED: Science Meets Spirituality, and Wireless Nanotech VR

[Doug]

Steve Sloan wrote:

 >
 >
 > Only if you assume that post-Singularity beings will lose interest
 >  in the real universe. If even one post-Singularity species or
 > individual stays interested in exploring real space, maybe as a
 >  hobby :-), then it would be pretty trivial (and cheap) to
 > create replicators to spread throughout the galaxy over
 > hundreds of thousands of years, looking for something
 > interesting to explore. Replicators should be here by now, so
 > we're right back to Fermi again...

One might guess, however, that if the technology exists to create 
these replicators, then the technology to make them stealthy enough 
so that we are unable to detect them may exist as well.  It might 
only mean that they are very, very small.

Then again, maybe Don Henley is right:

Would they pile into the saucer
Find Orlando's Rat and hug it?
Go screaming through the universe
Just to get McNuggets?

(from They're Not Here, They're not Coming)

  8^)

-- 
Doug

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