"Permanence" - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox?

Catching up on my email I found the following. Seems I have some
sci-fi reading to do as well.

Paper: astro-ph/0408521
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:40:52 GMT (617kb)

Title: "Permanence" - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox?
Authors: Milan M. Cirkovic
Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures

A new solution of Fermi's paradox sketched by SF writer Karl Schroeder
in his 2002. novel "Permanence" is critically investigated. It is
argued that this solution is tightly connected with adaptationism - a
widely discussed working hypothesis in evolutionary
biology. Schroeder's hypothesis has important ramifications for
astrobiology, SETI projects, and future studies. Its weaknesses should
be explored without succumbing to the emotional reactions often
accompanying adaptationist explanations.

( http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408521 , 617kb)




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