On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote
"I don't think Dyson spheres are possible." What law of physics do they violate? "You seem to be hypothesizing an ET who is superhuman." > Good heavens, well of course I'm hypothesizing an ET who is superhuman! Technology has only been on this planet for a few thousand years, imagine is if had been a few billion. What with genetic engineering and smart computers in just a century (probably much less) the most intelligent species on Earth will be superhuman, or there won't be a intelligent species at all. "Or more likely he is just too far away" > Interstellar distances are only a problem on a human timescale, and I'm not talking about humans. " his species didn't last long enough." > Maybe, but what killed them off? "It seems doubtful whether our civilization will be able to get past oil > depletion" > We have the technology right now to build Thorium fission reactors that could give us far more energy than oil ever could. And even if our civilization dies a new one would spring up almost immediately, a few thousand years at most. "and global warming." I'm far from convinced that global warming is even a bad thing, the climate on Earth is always changing. I have no reason to think the exact temperature the Earth is at now is the perfect temperature for human beings. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
