On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I don't think it's obvious that we could detect that a probe had been sent > to a star. > It would be obvious if it was a self replicating von Neumann probe, just one probe could construct a Dyson Sphere around every star in the Galaxy in 50 million years, and that would be very hard to overlook. > > And in any case the observable universe is very much bigger than our > galaxy. > If ET existed the observable universe would look engineered, and it doesn't. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
