Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-20 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 1:36 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > >> Just ONE bacteria placed in a sterile body of water the size of the >> Pacific Ocean could spread so that there were millions of bacteria in every >> square inch of it in just a few weeks, provided the ocean had the >> correct nutrients. An

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread Brent Meeker
On 8/19/2024 5:38 PM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM Brent Meeker wrote: />>> //if the Milky way has on produced a handful of vNps then it's not so implausible that none of have succeeded or even tried./// >> I don't know how you figure that

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *>>> **if the Milky way has on produced a handful of vNps then it's not so >> implausible that none of have succeeded or even tried.* >> > > >> I don't know how you figure that. It seems ridiculously implausible to > me because it only takes one

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread Brent Meeker
On 8/19/2024 3:41 PM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 6:17 PM Brent Meeker wrote: /> //if the Milky way has on produced a handful of vNps then it's not so implausible that none of have succeeded or even tried./// I don't know how you figure that. It seems ridiculously im

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 6:17 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > *> **if the Milky way has on produced a handful of vNps then it's not so > implausible that none of have succeeded or even tried.* > I don't know how you figure that. It seems ridiculously implausible to me because it only takes one. > * >

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread Brent Meeker
ohn Clark wrote: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad43d7/pdf> Quotation from the paper: /"We discuss the necessity of concepts like Kardeshev Type I/II civilizations and *Dyson spheres*, which would aim to harness

Re: Dyson ​Spheres​ and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread Dylan Distasio
don't buy the Dark Forest explanation. It's hard for me to believe this is the case with the number of potentially habitable exoplanets out there, but Occam's Razor and all that... On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM John Clark wrote: > > > Dyson Spheres an

Dyson ​Spheres​ and the Fermi Paradox

2024-08-19 Thread John Clark
Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox > <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad43d7/pdf> Quotation from the paper: > *"We discuss the necessity of concepts like Kardeshev Type I/II > civilizations and Dyson spheres, which would aim to harness vast amounts of