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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I agree with Musk in one very important way: We are most likely going to find a lot of failed civilizations...if we ever get off this rock to begin with. <div><br></div><div>Think about it. How many species are there in the fossil record before you get to us? How many survived as far as we have? </div><div><br></div><div>Now think...even fewer are going to survive past this phase.</div><div><br></div><div>We are more than likely doomed...but that may just be how the universe works. Only the truly fittest shall survive. We are mostly likely not it, just by the numbers. </div><div><br></div><div>Tony</div><div><br><div>> Subject: Re: Well this is interesting ...<br>> To: music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br>> From: g.vansanten@upcmail.nl<br>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:25:54 +0200<br>> <br>> Op 15-10-2015 om 17:10 schreef Tony Scharf:<br>> > > What if they were already here? Have been here for thousands of<br>> > > years, perhaps even longer. And we are somehow just slaves to<br>> > > them, without knowing it...?<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > Go ask Elon Musk. He probably knows.<br>> <br>> Wiki says:<br>> <br>> "Musk has considered the simulation hypothesis as a potential <br>> solution to the Fermi paradox:<br>> <br>> The absence of any noticeable life may be an argument in favour <br>> of us being in a simulation.... Like when you're playing an <br>> adventure game, and you can see the stars in the background, but <br>> you can't ever get there. If it's not a simulation, then maybe <br>> we're in a lab and there's some advanced alien civilization <br>> that's just watching how we develop, out of curiosity, like mould <br>> in a petri dish.... If you look at our current technology level, <br>> something strange has to happen to civilizations, and I mean <br>> strange in a bad way.... And it could be that there are a whole <br>> lot of dead, one-planet civilizations."<br>> <br>> Interesting...<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Gert<br>> <br>> gert van santen<br>> www.gertvansanten.nl<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> music-bar mailing list<br>> music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br>> http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar<br></div></div> </div></body>
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