[ExI] kepler study says 8.8e9 earthlike planets

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On 11/7/13, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
> Me too, in a way.  We think of the Great Filter notion as something that
> always slays tech-enabled societies, but there is another way: a Great
> Filter could be something positive.  If for instance, we figure out how to
> upload, it is easy enough to imagine that the only compelling task remaining
> for that species is to gather all the locally available metals and convert
> it all to computronium.  There is no point in sending out signals to another
> star, for a post computronium planetary system has nothing to gain by
> signaling others in the galaxy.

### Even this is kinda hard to believe as a Great Filter - 10e20
potential civilizations, and not a single one strays from the narrow
path? Also, if a civ thinks it makes sense to eat your own solar
system and make it into a brain, why not eat the neighboring one too,
and then next one and the next one?

Rafal