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A comment on The Doomsday Invention.

Re:The Doomsday Invention by ecksor on Sunday December 13, 2015 @08:57PM (#10728970)
"the universe appears lifeless not because complex life is unusual but, rather, because it is always somehow thwarted before it becomes advanced enough to colonize space."

The universe appears lifeless because it is a Dark Forest. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest

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Re:The Doomsday Invention by ajmurmann on Sunday December 13, 2015 @10:48PM (#10729329)
That was a great book. My only issue was the phoney science around locating where a signal comes from.
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