X-Message-Number: 11193 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:21:38 -0500 From: Brook Norton <> Subject: Those missing ETs Smith (can't find first name from the message) in #11188 comments that the ETs are invisible because they are so advanced we don't know what to look for. I share this opinion. I'm of the opinion that our technology will reach a singularity of types where we can no longer recognize the entities and technologies that humans will become. I am optimistic that this will be a good thing and that our happiness will be greatly increased. Such advanced societies would use physics we don't yet understand and so are unrecognizable even if we are observing them. Its also possible they've all gone to parallel universes that are in some way superior to our own... or they've gone in time machines to the distant past or future....or they figured out that this universe really IS just a simulation and have uploaded to the next level of reality, joining the simulators. At any rate, it will be so radically different that it is impossible to know in what way the ETs have become invisible to us. I also believe it is possible that all technologically advanced societies eventually stumble on some very fundamental, very deadly technology, like gray-goo or something along these lines. In this case, all societies are eliminated at the same stage of their development and so again, they are invisible to us. I hope this scenario doesn't pan out! I'm glad cryonics may provide a way to witness these coming events which should be a good show. Brook Norton aerospace engineer not signed up with a cryonics organization Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11193