Fermi's Paradox

This story had an impact on me. If I ever really did (or rather, could) write HH, it would be well into the first, even the second season before the rest of the household realized that D.J. (an alien disguised as a Human being) isn't from "another planet," but instead a huge O'Neill habitat out in the Kuiper Belt or maybe the Oort Cloud.

About the whole "inevitable inner space" thing, um, no.

"Yet while we might easily place inanimate "seeds" in such archives, I suspect that any animate consciousness sitting in near-Earth space would feel banished, denied the vastly faster and more complex activities occuring on planet, in Earth's most advanced zones of inner spaceparadises of nano, quantum, and eventually femtocomputation which we can scarcely imagine today."

Because of course nano, quantum, and femtocomputation couldn't possibly work in space. Near-Earth space. Just couldn't happen. It'll work on Earth, but anybody in space would be forever denied these things because, ah,... why was that again?

I've only made it as far as "Unique Searches, Less-Random Trajectories, and the Role of Simulation," which means I'm a touch more than half-way through it, but really, it seems to be more of the same sort of thing throughout. Well, yes, humanity has been spreading out since we first crawled out of the trees, but that's really a relentless rush *inward!* And we can't rush inward by spreading outward any farther than we already have because, um... why was that again?

So I guess what I'm trying to say in the fewest words possible (lol) is that I find this hard to take seriously. Right now it's past my bed-time and I'll have to read the rest in daylight hours.