The SETI Paradox

LJK — 12/5/2006 3:20:15 PM (archived)

Physics, abstract
physics/0611283

From: Alexander Zaitsev [view email]

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:35:19 GMT (31kb)

The SETI Paradox

Authors: Alexander Zaitsev

Comments: 7 pages

Subj-class: General Physics; Popular Physics

Two opposing tendencies paradoxically coexist in terrestrial consciousness -- the insistent quest for intelligent signals from other civilizations and the persistent aversion to any attempts to transmit such signals from Earth toward probable fellow intelligent beings. If typical for our entire Universe, such manifestations of intelligence would make the search for other civilizations totally meaningless.

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611283

The whole thread (17 posts)

The SETI Paradox - LJK - 12/5/2006 3:20:15 PM
- re: The SETI Paradox - Hank - 12/8/2006 2:33:29 PM
  - Exactly, with a but... - LJK - 12/8/2006 3:28:55 PM
    - re: Exactly, with a but... - Hank - 12/8/2006 4:17:08 PM
      - Precisely. - Hank - 12/8/2006 6:08:28 PM
        
        Galactic Mayflies - LJK - 12/8/2006 6:38:21 PM
        
        In a lonely place. - Hank - 12/8/2006 7:19:31 PM
      - Only one realistic way to do more than guess about them... - LJK - 12/8/2006 4:29:50 PM
- Sun to rise in East tomorrow - phil - 12/5/2006 3:26:33 PM
  - Not on Venus, Uranus, or Pluto - LJK - 12/5/2006 3:58:42 PM
    - Anywhere but here - ER - 12/8/2006 11:39:43 PM
      - But please note... - LJK - 12/13/2006 3:36:57 PM
    - Earth WAS uninhabited for at Least 3.5 billion years - Mark Eby - 12/6/2006 3:35:46 AM
      - Why would ETI colonize the ENTIRE galaxy, especially systems already occupied? - LJK - 12/6/2006 5:54:51 PM
        
        What PArt Of Uninhabited For 3.5 Billion Years Did You Not Get? - ID - 12/7/2006 2:47:50 PM
        
        re: What PArt Of Uninhabited For 3.5 Billion Years Did You Not Get? - LJK - 12/7/2006 7:59:53 PM
        
        The Fermi Paradox: An Approach Based on Percolation Theory - LJK - 12/6/2006 6:15:56 PM

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