[ExI] 30 Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

[John Grigg]

Spike wrote:
"Hey wait a minute, think of the potential markets we could open up.
Brilliant Johnnie!  We could sell them oceans of ColaCola, potato chips by
the metric ton.  We buy their planet’s oil and uranium, THEN we explain
internal combustion and nuclear power."

Spike, you absolutely must read "Jack Faust," by Michael Swanwick. It is
very much along these lines, but even more fiendish....

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243860.Jack_Faust

John  ;  )

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:08 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…I love the idea of humanity growing into being the "galactic elder race"
> that came long before almost everyone else did in our galaxy! In time we
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> potential. John  :  )
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