<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="3"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b>On Monday, December 19, 2011 7:22 PM </font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@gmail.com> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></font><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">3) Perhaps the most bizarre reason for the Fermi problem is the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> world as we know it being a simulation. There are probably</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> ways to test for being in a simulation, but testing ends the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> simulation (and the universe as we know it) so it might not be</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> something you want to try.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jeff Olson asked, on this, why wouldn't there be simulated aliens as well? I think raising the simulation scenario here doesn't resolve the issue. You might just as well say there are no aliens in evidence because God wills it to be so.</span><br style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dan</span><br> </font></div><font size="3"> </font></div> </div></body></html>