[ExI] Fermi question, was is a FTL drive a dream

[Stefano Vaj]

On 22 December 2011 02:13, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> If technophilic life is common, then something will keep us from growing
> to the point of being observable from a distance.
>

What does prevent us?

Perhaps aliens are too engaged in the bailout of their banks and in
distributing bonuses to their financial executives to make the kind of
real-world, large scale investment that ends up being visible from another
solar system... :-)

I was thinking that after all from outer space the Chinese Wall emains one
of the most obvious man-made structures, and it is not really something
that was planned and executed in the framework of contemporary
society/economy/set of priorities... :-)

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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