On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > What do you feel would be the reaction of our species if magically, it > gets determined that it is indeed Dyson builders? > It would be a very odd star system for the Evolution of Dyson builders to evolve on. The star has 1.43 times the mass of our sun and a star's lifetime is inversely proportional to the cube of its mass, so that star's lifetime would only be about a third of the sun's. The sun and the Earth are about the same age, 4 and a half billion years, and in another half a billion years the sun will be too hot for life on Earth. So the sun can provide about 5 billion year window for intelligent life to evolve. On Earth it took 4 billion years to go from chemicals to worms and another half a billion years to go from worms to present day people. The star you're talking about would only have a 1.6 billion year window for life, and that doesn't seem like enough time for Evolution to turn chemicals into Dyson builders . If you were on the Earth when the sun was only 1.6 billion years old you'd have to wait another 2.4 billion years to see the first worm. We only have one example to look at so maybe life on Earth evolved unusually slowly but I think it much more likely that life on Earth evolved unusually rapidly, because Earth not only produced life it produced intelligent life. And however common intelligence is in the universe bacteria must be even more common. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
