[extropy-chat] damien's psi book

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I always figured that alien signals would be encrypted and disguised as
background radiation.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
To: "Russell Wallace" <russell.wallace at gmail.com>; "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] damien's psi book


>
> --- Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:43:29 -0800, spike <spike66 at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Even if we go with the notion that we exist in some
> > > sort of meta-sim, it still fails to explain the one
> > > observation that has puzzled me to no end: that the
> > > cosmos are not buzzing with signals.  How could that
> > > be?  Surely we are not the first tech-capable species
> > > to evolve.  Could we *really* be the very first ones
> > > to come along?  That notion is just too mind-boggling.
> > > So where are the others?
> >
> > I've never understood why people are so unhappy with this idea;
> > what's to be unhappy about? It's not as if we have any practical
> > need for the existence of aliens.
>
> There is a very practical reason: we want the aliens to beam us the
> designs for a warp drive. We also need to send them a royalty bill for
> all the great entertainment we've been beaming out to them for decades.
>
> The baby boomer generation looked at radio comm as a mantra proof that
> it was possible for humanity to survive the nuclear age.
>
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