Mike Williams wrote:

It was suggested in the programme there could well be civilizations out
there that got started billions of years earlier than ourselves.

So why aren't they here?

Maybe uploading is an easier solution to overcrowding than generation ships.

FoFP

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"Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her
first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.' "

-- James Lileks