Sophistic musing: if civilizations could expand at exponential rates, rather than sigmoidally (locally) or linearly (long-term), we would have been in touch with aliens by now
Show this thread
-
So a single civilization going exponential anywhere in the galaxy at least 2,500 years ago would have consumed our sun by now
Show this thread
Even taking into account the speed of light as a hard limit on expansion, it would still only take on the order of 100k years -- less than the age of humanity
-
-
One civilization has got to be the first though
-
Shotgun!
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Maybe we are the first ones? Cause we need to have elements which synthesized in supernovas. So...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Interesting train of thought, but my dude, have you considered that the Big Bang produced only H & He, that all carbon etc was made in the hearts of stars and had to be thrown forth therefrom into the interstellar medium...
-
And that the universe was about 8 gigayears old when our Solar planetesy condensed from that interstellar medium, and maybe it took at least that long to make enough astrophysical metals, that we need to take this into account in the Drake equation...
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.