Consider the possibility of such a civilization that has insufficient
tendency toward continuous growth to saturate this galaxy, and/or
insufficient interest in places like here to have bothered dropping by
during the relatively narrow time-window we might have noticed such.
I think it's worth keeping such possible explanations in mind as we come
across various odd cosmological phenomena. Let the evidence rule
explanations out (or in), not the lack of evidence...
Henry
On 3/10/2017 11:16 AM, William Claybaugh wrote:
It is unlikely that there is--or has ever been--any technical
civilization in this galaxy capable of reaching 0.1C as evidenced by the
fact that they are not here.
Bill
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:02 AM Redacted sender monsieurboo for DMARC
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
This new paper has sparked some interest by the mainstream media. I
recognize it's a bit beyond what we'd normally consider the purpose
of our forum -- but then, "amateur" is a relative term that takes
its definition largely from the scope of the particular civilization
in which it's defined. And perhaps there's a civilization out there
in which harnessing and focusing energy of a magnitude 500M greater
than that of Sol is the equivalent of making KNSB motors in the garage.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01109.pdf
My conclusion is that the authors' equations may well demonstrate
that this */can /*be done, but they offer nothing more than
handwaving about /*how */it could be done. Lacking any details of
the engineering, I'll have to leave it in the category of "then
magic happens" for now.
Cheers,
Mark L.
