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The Cow Paradox
Seth Shostak muses over a fourth-rate burger:
http://www.seti.org/site/apps/nl/con...993&ct=3300521 Sounds very wasteful to me. Why would a Type II civilization expend so much energy just to contact a lowly Type I civilization like us? |
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The Cow Paradox
"Keith Wood" wrote in message
Sounds very wasteful to me. Why would a Type II civilization expend so much energy just to contact a lowly Type I civilization like us? I thought we were a Type 0 civilization (meaning type zero or perhaps less than zero). How the heck did we manage to get ourselves all the way to being Type I? - Brad Guth -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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"Keith Wood" wrote in message ... Seth Shostak muses over a fourth-rate burger: http://www.seti.org/site/apps/nl/con...993&ct=3300521 Sounds very wasteful to me. Why would a Type II civilization expend so much energy just to contact a lowly Type I civilization like us? I agree. There is not much use in flashing lights at alien cows, since they cannot answer any way. It's so much intelligent for them to set up a smaller beacon and wait until we develop technology to find it and we can actually answer them. A Type II civilization did not become Type II by being wastefull and stupid. Rob |
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The Cow Paradox
Most ET don't think we are worth contacting, 8000 years of warfare and we
are still at it. I think they are more likely to pick up a few nice ones for pets and gas all the rest so they can take over our lovely planet that we are obviously not fit for. Chris. Some cows are nice pets. "Rob Dekker" wrote in message news "Keith Wood" wrote in message ... Seth Shostak muses over a fourth-rate burger: http://www.seti.org/site/apps/nl/con...993&ct=3300521 Sounds very wasteful to me. Why would a Type II civilization expend so much energy just to contact a lowly Type I civilization like us? I agree. There is not much use in flashing lights at alien cows, since they cannot answer any way. It's so much intelligent for them to set up a smaller beacon and wait until we develop technology to find it and we can actually answer them. A Type II civilization did not become Type II by being wastefull and stupid. Rob |
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The Cow Paradox
Chris a écrit :
Most ET don't think we are worth contacting, 8000 years of warfare and we are still at it. I think they are more likely to pick up a few nice ones for pets and gas all the rest so they can take over our lovely planet that we are obviously not fit for. That would be all too human... I think they just do not care. Why should they? |
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The Cow Paradox
"jacob navia" wrote in message ... Chris a écrit : Most ET don't think we are worth contacting, 8000 years of warfare and we are still at it. I think they are more likely to pick up a few nice ones for pets and gas all the rest so they can take over our lovely planet that we are obviously not fit for. That would be all too human... I think they just do not care. Why should they? Exactly right! Our penchant for warfare and/or our numerous many other potentially strange practices/customs has nothing whatsoever to do with lack of being contacted by hyper-intelligent races in the galaxy--for one thing, the primary criterion for them to consider a species worth contacting at all would likely be, for starters, the prerequisite that the species be an interstellar traveling one--one, which is ubiquitous in the galaxy already. Perhaps other rules or behaviors need be adhered too also, e.g., maybe races have to discover and utilize a certain advanced form of energy (Zero-point, say) or they must already be utilizing some advanced form of communication (FTL, say) to even be detectable. In any event, this is the only type of species which has even a chance of being intelligent enough to be worth contacting. Besides, if we are not that advanced, we might simply be invisible far as they are concerned...ants crawling about on a single twig of a single branch of the tree of the galaxy. sigh ...tonyC |
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