[ExI] More Fermi Paradox

[Andrew Mckee]

On Wed, 15 May 2013 02:44:51 +1200, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:


> He mentions one thing I hadn't heard before. - Sandberg probes (from
> you know who).
> The suggestion here is that when a civ gets to the stage that it can
> create self-replicating probes to go out and spam the universe,
> another thought occurs..... What if another civ has already done this?

David Brin's novel - 'Existence'  kinda takes this idea and runs with it, definitely worth a read IMO.