Re: regeneration

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:22:33 +0000 (UTC)

"Tim Tyler" <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message news:cf0iap$1ndr$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> Perplexed in Peoria <jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net> wrote or quoted:
> > Besides, the timeframe that was originally mentioned was on the order of
> > a billion years. I think that even if we had only a few thousand scientists
> > and engineers per generation, we would still make considerable progress
> > in that kind of timeframe.
>
> Probably - but by that time, aliens might have wiped us out.
>
> I'm not kidding about those aliens.
>
> Just because they are not banging on our door just yet doesn't
> mean we can act as though they are not there - and if they *are*
> there, we are likely to wind up in competition with them - and
> in that case, dawdling around with "a few thousand scientists and
> engineers" might not be such a good move.

Perhaps they are not banging on our door because up until now we
have not annoyed them. Given the age of the galaxy (10 Gy) and the timeframe
that you have projected for human expansion through the galaxy (10 My), it
seems to me that your expansion project is just asking for trouble.
If you really think that aliens are out there, then we would be
wiser to stay here at home and avoid pissing them off. But I think
that we are verging far from sci.bio.evolution.