<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 December 2011 02:13, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If technophilic life is common, then something will keep us from growing<br>
to the point of being observable from a distance.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>What does prevent us? <br><br>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... :-)<br>
<br>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... :-)<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>