"One day we will probably pick up a signal from aliens and we spend 20 years decoding it and finally a translation is achieved and it says "don't do X". We then realize that civilization wiped itself out doing X and we have been doing X for ages.…"
"Meelk, I suspect if we found life on another planet and it was an amoeba or something, we would probably try to farm and harvest it to make glowing widgets to sell on street corners. Our only hope of real advancement is a species that ain't…"
"Parra G, I wish there were more sci fi explorations of the Fermi Paradox. Or as Enrico Fermi said, where is everybody? One reason for positing the blog is because my daughter and I watched D-Day and then discussed the Dark Forest Theory, that ET…"
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