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Politics : Evolution
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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (14269)3/13/2011 10:32:47 PM
From: Jacques Chitte1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
To me this calls forth Brin's Conundrum: "Where the heck IS everybody?"

If life is ubiquitous, sapient life should be, if not common, at least present throughout the galaxy. However the cosmos is quiet ... "too quiet" to invoke the western-movie cliche. So:

1) Maybe life is intrinsically rare or even unique.

2) Maybe life is common, but there are as yet undetermined steep barriers to sapience.

3) Maybe sapient, technical species/cultures have short lifespans or radiative time windows.

4) Maybe the cosmos is full of wolves of some sort. Technical cultures either learn to armor themselves (stealth) in short order ... or they become targets.

5) Something different.
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