[extropy-chat] When did intelligence first emerge in the universe?

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, George Dvorsky wrote:

> A lot of hand waving goes on when people dismiss the Fermi Paradox. The 
> fact that the universe isnt already teeming with ETIs and machine 
> intelligences is more disturbing than most people realize.

> So, where is everybody?

Not only is the universe bound to be teeming with life, but
the universe is also incredibly large and relatively empty.

Here is a nice web page illustrating empty.  In this case
the empty inside a hydrogen atom, but outer space has a
similar kind of emptyness.

http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/index.html

Don't bother trying to scroll from one side of the page
to the other using your arrow key - it'll take hours,
maybe days...

11 miles is a long way for your right arrow key :)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan