Aliens need a lot motime to find us

Thanks for weighing in on the detectability of starships.

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lucio de Souza Coelho

> By the way, evoking Singularity is another recurring explanation for
> the Fermi Paradox: we don't see alien civilizations because even a
> civilization just 100 years ahead of us would have evolved into
> something incomprehensible and unrecognizable to us.

"Incomprehensible", I have no doubt; but "unrecognizable" I have a problem with. A squirrel can't comprehend New York City, but he can certainly recognize that it differs from a virgin forest. I would expect a post-singularity civilization to do things like casually deciding to re-structure the Milky Way for more efficient use of its resources. We couldn't begin to comprehend how they were doing such a thing, but the point is that the picture would be distinguishable from a galactic wilderness.

Regards,

Mike Combs