[extropy-chat] Dark matter and ET

[spike]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> 
> Even so, what use are stars?
> 
> And with life 3.85 billion years old on Earth, and the Milky Way 100,000
> lightyears across, how likely is it that more than one intelligent species
> arises in a galaxy before the first species takes over the whole galaxy?
> 
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/


Unlikely indeed, unless they are keeping a few percent of them
untouched just to see what will evolve there.

spike