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Re:Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds n... by mysterypie on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:01AM (#18501735)
Since we're on the topic of really exotic, how about a complex proton arrangement inside a star having all the properties of intelligent life? This wouldn't suffer from light speed constraints. Would it violate other constraints from fundamental physics?
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Re:Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds n... by bullosB on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:12AM (#18502776)
It reminds me of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain. It's indeed really exotic and I'm not sure how long this intelligence could exist.
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Re:Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds n... by plushpuffin on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:32PM (#18505336)
Frederik Pohl wrote a novel about just such a creature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time

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