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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: The Great Silence
Message-ID: <387@baylor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:38:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:38:30 1985
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You're assuming there's only a few intelligent races in the galaxy. Besides:
why would a reace with a low exploratory/reproductive/etc. drive acquire
interstellar travel? And so what if they can survive for 1000 years on a
single solar system: that still leaves time for 3,000 iterations of the
explore/colonise/fill a solar system/explore cycle if they're only 1%
ahead of us. And do they have to fill the solar system before they want to
go for the next one?
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	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian)
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