From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T03:32:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

On 22 Apr 2009, at 18:31, Robert Dober wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Eleanor McHugh
> <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>> On 22 Apr 2009, at 15:06, Robert Dober wrote:
>>> BTW if there were any Dyson spheres out there, should we not be able
>>> to detect them already in a certain distance? I mean would that not
>>> cause some anomalies between emissions and gravitational behavior of
>>> the neighboring stars? Or is this shadowed by the gravitational
>>> overkill of the "central black hole"?
>>
>> It might. However whether or not we will ever detect evidence of  
>> one is
>> dependant on the probability of a particular chain of events:
>>
>> 1. life exists elsewhere in the universe;
>> 2. that life has thrown up an active intelligence;
>> 3. that intelligence is sufficiently social to survive for a  
>> significant
>> geological timeframe;
>> 4. the resulting society develops sufficiently advanced technology to
>> reengineer the structure of their solar system;
>> 5. having achieved that level of technology they then have the will  
>> to use
>> it;
>> 6. and all this has already happened.
> I challenge this ;), a Dyson sphere might be the evolutionary response
> of spacebound nonconscient lifeforms.
> Now that would be a deception.

Fred Hoyle proposed something similar in the form of intelligent dust  
clouds which I've always found appealing.

> BTW
> We are not OT here, the same lifeform has created a biological virtual
> machine for Ruby, completely by chance!!!!
> Can you believe it?

I'm willing to believe that if a Dyson sphere evolved naturally that  
it would be Ruby compatible :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
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