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09-09-2010 3:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by crashfrog
09-09-2010 12:35 AM

Crash says:
Given the rate of technological advancement in intelligent species, any intelligence with as much as a million years head-start should be engaging in engineering on a galactic scale by now. We should be able to see their public works projects from here.
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For some time I was entertaining the thought that Globular Clusters were indeed ARTIFACTS. Since then, I have realized that they might indeed naturally occur - as certain astronomers have tentatively begun to understand. But, wow, you get your telescope on M13 in Hercules and it just looks so perfectly symmetrical, it has to be by Intelligent Design.
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Ho ho ho ho.
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xongsmith
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09-10-2010 8:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 47 by jar
09-10-2010 5:46 PM

Re: Fermi's Loss
jar conjectures:
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Or they already arrived here, found out about Lite Beer and simply wrote this place off the return list.
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...or, at some point, their right wingers cut taxes to the point where they couldn't fund space exploration anymore and since then any notion to revive it has always died in committee.
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