On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> 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 [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.
